The Power to Die Slavery and Suicide in British North America

Terri L. Snyder, "The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America"
English | ISBN: 022628056X | 2015 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they jumped into rivers or out of windows, or even ran into burning buildings. Faced with the reality of enslavement, countless Africans chose death instead.