A curse upon the nation : race, freedom, and extermination in America and the Atlantic world /

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"From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later hel...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lewis, Kay Wright, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Slavery > United States > Influence.
Violence > United States > History.
Slave rebellions > Historiography.
African Americans > Crimes against.
Racism > United States > History.
Fear > Political aspects > United States.
Genocide > Public opinion.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Influence.
Violence > États-Unis > Histoire.
Révoltes d'esclaves > Historiographie.
Noirs américains > Crimes contre.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Peur > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
African Americans > Crimes against
Fear > Political aspects
Race relations
Racism
Slave rebellions > Historiography
Violence
United States > Race relations > History.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The legacy and human cost of slavery
  • "Nits make lice": genocidal violence in colonial America
  • A "state of war continued": white fear, black warriors
  • "The past is never dead": the continuity of African and European warfare practices
  • The abridgment of hope: after Nat Turner
  • "In the hands of the master": the Virginia debates
  • Seeing their blood flow: reopening the African slave trade
  • John Brown's mistake: the power of memory and the dangers of violence
  • Making "hell for a country": the Civil War and post-Civil War era
  • Epilogue. the "place for which our fathers sighed."

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