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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Melish, Joanne Pope (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."