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

Name: Disowning Slavery Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860
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ISBN: 9780801484377

ISBN-10: 0801484375

ISBN-13: 9780801484377

Edition: 2016

Authors: Joanne Pope Melish

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Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


List of Archives Cited


Introduction



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"


Index