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Book Review

The Insolent Slave. By William E. Wiethoff. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xiv, 223 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-414-1.)

William E. Wiethoff, in The Insolent Slave, takes an intriguing idea and applies it to an array of issues related to slavery in the antebellum southern United States. Focusing on the discourse of slavery, Wiethoff examines how white southern slaveholders used the language of 'insolence' to define and express their deepest fears about the institution. Recognizing the inescapable reciprocity of relations between masters and slaves, Wiethoff also charts the ways in which slaves used insolence--a refusal to display the honor and respect slave owners demanded--to gain discursive power for themselves. . . .
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