Jason R. Young is professor of history at the University of Michigan.

“Jason R. Young writes with originality and versatility on the problems at the nexus of race, power, profit, performance, authenticity, meaning-making, and historical memory. This compelling work will change how we understand representations of slavery.”—Lisa Gail Collins, author of Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt“A lyrical, witty, and incisive work that exposes the absurdity of the purported racial expertise claimed by elite white Charlestonians. Jason R. Young shows how their distorted narratives about enslaved people persist to this day.”—Sharla M. Fett, author of Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade

Jason R. Young is professor of history at the University of Michigan.

“Jason R. Young writes with originality and versatility on the problems at the nexus of race, power, profit, performance, authenticity, meaning-making, and historical memory. This compelling work will change how we understand representations of slavery.”—Lisa Gail Collins, author of Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt“A lyrical, witty, and incisive work that exposes the absurdity of the purported racial expertise claimed by elite white Charlestonians. Jason R. Young shows how their distorted narratives about enslaved people persist to this day.”—Sharla M. Fett, author of Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade

Jason R. Young is professor of history at the University of Michigan.

“Jason R. Young writes with originality and versatility on the problems at the nexus of race, power, profit, performance, authenticity, meaning-making, and historical memory. This compelling work will change how we understand representations of slavery.”—Lisa Gail Collins, author of Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt“A lyrical, witty, and incisive work that exposes the absurdity of the purported racial expertise claimed by elite white Charlestonians. Jason R. Young shows how their distorted narratives about enslaved people persist to this day.”—Sharla M. Fett, author of Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade