Search for: [Abstract = "The objective of this paper is to examine the particular oppressive experiences of Blacks who became the beast of burden of the peculiar institution, a system of dehumanization that reduced them to simple objects in the South. In \"My Father\?s Name\", through the study of a black Virginia family and its neighborhood, Lawrence P. Jackson makes a recall of the horror of slavery and Blacks` struggle for freedom in the Postbellum South."]