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Article: Nathalie Dessens. Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Nathalie Dessens. Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2003. 213 pp. $55.00.
Happy darkies, southern belles, Samboes, Mammies, southern hospitality ... The American South. From where did southern myths come, and how were, how are they exacerbated? In an informative introduction, six core chapters, and a conclusion, Nathalie Dessens examines the origins of southern mythmaking in Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies. As the book's title implies, Dessens takes the reader on a journey set in motion by Columbus's "discovery" of the Americas, by ...