The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered A. P. Shepherd while tackling a very serious

while tackling a very serious subject: the mental health of food producers

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Fervent fundamentalists are confronted with the unsettling fact that a literal reading of the Bible would result in complete nonsense

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setting father against son and brother against brother

The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered A. P. Shepherd while tackling a very seriousWinner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award Historians have long considered the diary of William Johnson, a wealthy free Black barber in Natchez, Mississippi, to be among the most significant sources on free African Americans living in the antebellum South. Timothy R. Buckner's The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered reexamines Johnson's life using recent scholarship on Black masculinity as an essential lens, demonstrating a complexity to Johnson