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Black Hands, White House : Slave Labor and the Making of America /
"Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. These commodities--na...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, MN :
Fortress Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Captured and caged : and still they built new worlds
- 1. Black bodies : white minds, and the irony of liberty
- 2. Black hands : native lands, and the making of Mount Vernon
- 3. Black minds : blueprints, and the enslaved and free Black artisans of Federal City
- 4. Black builders : slave pens, and the construction of the national seat of government
- 5. Black laborers : prophetic abolitionists, and iconic institutions in the nation's capital
- Part II. Blessing the wings : a call for a national memorial
- 6. Black lives : co-opted memorials, and the paradox of not mattering
- 7. Black memory : Black market, and the transatlantic slave trade.