Disowning Slavery : Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860 /

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Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources--from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides--Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society cha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Melish, Joanne Pope
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Geschichte 1780-1860.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Vrijlating.
Abolitionisme.
Slavernij.
Sklaverei
Rassismus
Abschaffung
Slaves > Emancipation.
Race relations.
Antislavery movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Slaves > Emancipation > New England > History > 19th century.
Slaves > Emancipation > New England > History > 18th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > New England > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > New England > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > New England > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > New England > History > 18th century.
Neuengland
New England.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Relations raciales.
New England > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources--from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides--Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but how its perceptions changed as well. Melish explores the origins of racial thinking and practices to show how ill-prepared the region was to accept a population of free people of color in its midst. Because emancipation was gradual, whites transferred prejudices shaped by slavery to their relations with free people of color, and their attitudes were buttressed by abolitionist rhetoric which seemed to promise riddance of slaves as much as slavery. She tells how whites came to blame the impoverished condition of people of color on their innate inferiority, how racialization became an important component of New England ante-bellum nationalism, and how former slaves actively participated in this discourse by emphasizing their African identity. Placing race at the center of New England history, Melish contends that slavery was important not only as a labor system but also as an institutionalized set of relations. The collective amnesia about local slavery's existence became a significant component of New England regional identity.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781501702938

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