The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. SouthUniv of North Carolina Press, 2002 - 238 páginas This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of po |
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... Race and the Politics of Emancipation 101 5 Delusions of a False Canaan : On Morant Bay , Redemption , and the Incomplete Victory of Emancipation 131 Conclusion : The Paradox of Emancipation and the Limits of Abolitionist Thought 167 ...
... Race and the Politics of Emancipation 101 5 Delusions of a False Canaan : On Morant Bay , Redemption , and the Incomplete Victory of Emancipation 131 Conclusion : The Paradox of Emancipation and the Limits of Abolitionist Thought 167 ...
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... race relations , or of slavery , but also in view of the conditions under which societies abolished slavery and ushered the Negro into an era of freedom . " 4 In order to produce meaningful generalizations about slave systems , it has ...
... race relations , or of slavery , but also in view of the conditions under which societies abolished slavery and ushered the Negro into an era of freedom . " 4 In order to produce meaningful generalizations about slave systems , it has ...
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... racial , and religious hierarchy being others ) of stabilizing human orders , what has been identified as the " institutionalization of marginalization . " " Human societies have always seemed to organize themselves on the basis of ...
... racial , and religious hierarchy being others ) of stabilizing human orders , what has been identified as the " institutionalization of marginalization . " " Human societies have always seemed to organize themselves on the basis of ...
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... racial hierarchy that placed Blacks at the bottom of the social system . The latter dynamic forced the ex - slaves to challenge and reinterpret the dominant political languages , in a process identified as " the antinomian use of ...
... racial hierarchy that placed Blacks at the bottom of the social system . The latter dynamic forced the ex - slaves to challenge and reinterpret the dominant political languages , in a process identified as " the antinomian use of ...
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... racial hierarchy in the United States . The American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission whose preliminary and final reports helped to lay the foundation for the emancipation process acknowl- edged the unique position of the state : " This is ...
... racial hierarchy in the United States . The American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission whose preliminary and final reports helped to lay the foundation for the emancipation process acknowl- edged the unique position of the state : " This is ...
Contenido
The Song That Antislavery Sung Abolition and the Great Transformation | 23 |
A Steady and Certain Command of Labour Political Languages in the Immediate Postemancipation AngloAmericas | 41 |
This Work of Civilization The Secular Evangelical Mission of the Special Magistrates and the Freedmens Bureau Officials | 67 |
The Vexed Question of Original Unity The Political Language of Race and the Politics of Emancipation | 101 |
Delusions of a False Canaan On Morant Bay Redemption and the Incomplete Victory of Emancipation | 131 |
The Paradox of Emancipation and the Limits of Abolitionist Thought | 167 |
Notes | 181 |
Bibliography | 211 |
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The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S ... Demetrius L. Eudell Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S ... Demetrius Lynn Eudell Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
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abolition of slavery abolitionists agents American antislavery apprentices apprenticeship argued asserted assistant commissioner Baynes became Black Codes British Caribbean British Slave Emancipation Capitalism and Slavery Circular Civil claimed Colonial Office conception constituted contended cultural economic Edward emancipation process emerged emphasis enclosed in Sligo Eric Foner former slaves Frederick Douglass Freedmen's Bureau freedom freedpeople Governor Sligo Howard human Ibid idea ideology immigration industrial insisted intellectual island issue Jamaica Jamaica Assembly John Daughtrey July Ku Klux Klan labor land Letters liberty Lord Glenelg Metcalf missionaries moral Morant Bay Negro perspective Philip Foner plantations planters political languages postslavery context problem punishment question race Reconstruction remained Rufus Saxton Saxton SFOR Sir Lionel Smith situation slaveholders Sligo to Glenelg Smith to Glenelg society South Carolina special magistrates tion U.S. South understanding United University Press W. E. B. Du Bois wages West Indies White William
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Página 13 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 3 - For this much all men know: despite compromise, war, and struggle, the Negro is not free. In the backwoods of the Gulf States, for miles and miles, he may not leave the plantation of his birth; in well-nigh the whole rural South the black farmers are peons, bound by law and custom to an economic slavery, from which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges. Before...
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