Reading Pleasures Peri Roberts Brown's remarkable findings are revealed

Brown's remarkable findings are revealed against a historical backdrop of mystery

management of violent as well as suicidal patients

both those widely recognized and those less commonly accepted

Many are convicted of crimes that did not even occur

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Reading Pleasures Peri Roberts Brown's remarkable findings are revealedIn the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing. Yet we overlook that these activities also brought pleasure. Tara A. Bynum tells the compelling stories of four early American writers who expressed feeling good despite living while enslaved or only nominally free. The poet Phillis Wheatley delights in writing letters to a friend. Ministers John Marrant and James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw