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

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

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

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

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Description: After slavery was abolished 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 that 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 antebellum nationalism, and how former slaves actively participated in this discourse by emphasizing their African identity. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers. To get started finding Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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Religion True Crime Travel History Classic Literature Poetry Mystery

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296

Format

Hardcover

Published

1998

Publisher

Cornell University Press

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N/A

Original Title

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

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