Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes about Christmas, and overlooking evidence that slavery's most punitive features persisted at holiday time.

This stereotype is horribly misleading, and its flaws were exposed under the stress of wartime deprivations. In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. slave labor was in Dixie, it has something to do with a barrage of 'Lost Cause' memoirs, novels, and short stories depicting the supposedly glorious times enslaved people had over the Yuletide. A major reinterpretation of human bondage, Yuletide in Dixie challenges disturbing myths embedded deeply in our culture. By exposing the underside of slave Christmases, May helps us better understand the problematic stereotypes of modern southern historical tourism and why disputes over Confederate memory retain such staying power today.

In Yuletide in Dixie, May uncovers a dark reality that not only alters our understanding of that history but also sheds new light on the breakdown of slavery in the Civil War and how false assumptions about slave Christmases afterward became harnessed to myths undergirding white supremacy in the United States. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes about the holiday, and overlooking evidence not only that countless southern whites passed Christmases fearful that their slaves would revolt but also that slavery's most punitive features persisted at holiday time. How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E.

Yuletide in Dixie by Robert E May