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The power to die : slavery and suicide in British North America /

The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they jumped into rivers or out of windows, or even ran i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snyder, Terri L., 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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505 0 |a List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Anna's Leap -- Introduction -- The Problem of Suicide in North American Slavery -- One -- Suicide and the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- Two -- Suicide and Seasoning in British American Plantations -- Three -- Slave Suicide in the Context of Colonial North America -- Four -- The Power to Die or the Power of the State? The Legalities of Suicide in Slavery -- Five -- The Paradoxes of Suicide and Slavery in Print -- Six -- The Meaning of Suicide in Antislavery Politics -- Epilogue -- Suicide, Slavery, and Memory in American Culture -- Studying Slave Suicide: An Essay on Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index. 
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