Disowning Slavery : Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860 /
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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1998.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- New England slavery. "Short of the truth": Slavery in the lives of whites. Another truth: enslavement in the lives of people of color
- The antislavery impulse. To "clear our spirits": Whites' expectations of freedom from slavery. The "privilage of freemen": Blacks' expectations of freedom from slavery
- "Slaves of the community": gradual emancipation in practice
- A "Negro spirit": em-bodying difference
- "To abolish the Black man": enacting the antislavery promise
- "A thing unknown": the free white republic as New England writ large
- "We are the alphabet": free people of color and the discourse of "race."