![]() ![]() That “their confinement” lacks a clear grammatical antecedent is precisely the point: in Douglass’s vision, as in Bennett’s, Black confinement and animal confinement are of the same genre. Joshua Bennett’s Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man takes as its point of departure Frederick Douglass’ injunction-in Douglass’ autobiography and in later writings-for “recently emancipated black farmers…to consider animals their co-laborers, friends, partners in the field, to resist the whims of a social order predicated on their confinement” (3). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020, 224 pp. ![]() Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man. ![]()
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