Making Slavery History Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts

Name: Making Slavery History Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts
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ISBN: 9780199922864

ISBN-10: 0199922861

ISBN-13: 9780199922864

Edition: 2012

Authors: Margot Minardi

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Making Slavery Historyfocuses on how commemorative practices and historical arguments about the American Revolution set the course for antislavery politics in the nineteenth century. The particular setting is a time and place in which people were hyperconscious of their roles as historical actors and narrators: Massachusetts in the period between the Revolution and the Civil War. This book shows how local abolitionists, both black and white, drew on their state's Revolutionary heritage to mobilize public opposition to Southern slavery. When it came to securing the citizenship of free people of color within the Commonwealth, though, black and white abolitionists diverged in terms of how they…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Prologue: Two Bodies


Introduction: Who Makes History?



Facts and Opinions



Heroes and Paupers



Movements and Monuments



Tea and Memory



Fugitives and Soldiers


Epilogue: Fishbones


Abbreviations


Notes


Index