Grant Rodwell is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at The University of Newcastle, Australia.

The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves the focus from slavery to the enslaved-from the institution to the personal, families and feminist accounts.

Contents

Abstract
Dedication
Acronyms and abbreviations
Acknolwedgements
Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1: From slavery to the enslaved: new paradigms, neo-slave fiction, a shared history and higher-order historical thinking

Chapter 2 Slavery and the enslaved: breaking boundaries with neo-slave narratives

Chapter 3 Antebellum neo-slave narratives, history and historiography: higher-order thinking and a public history

Chapter 4 The enslaved, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction

Chapter 5 Jim Crow and slavery's immediate aftermath

General conclusions
Bibliography