An edition of In the name of the father (2006)

In the name of the father

Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation

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An edition of In the name of the father (2006)

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Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation

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Penguin Press
Language
English
Pages
335

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Table of Contents

What the nation was up against
The farewell
The threats: geographical, political, international
Consent, slavery, and the problem of U.S. nationalism
1. The apotheosis of George Washington
Washington dies
The nation's uncertain future
Civic texts: creating a new future
Partisanship
Nationalism and religion
Resignation, gratitude, and consent
2. Washington's family: slavery and the nation
George's death and Martha's predicament
Slavery and the national family
Washington as abolitionist
Washington and paternalism
Toward a consenting republic?
3. Mason Locke Weems: spreading the American gospel
Clergyman to evangelical bookseller: "true philanthropist and prudent speculator"
Weems and antipartisanship
Weem's Washington: a primer
An "ad captandum" book
Discriminating the "populi"
Selling Marshall's biography: Weems and civic texts
4. Civic texts for slave and free: inventing the autonomous American
Schoolbooks ad civic texts: the hidden bestsellers of early American literature
From the Columbian orator to the English reader: the making of the autonomous individual
Slavery and reading: the specter of uncontrolled slaves
Civic texts for slaves, self-control, and the inculcation of slave autonomy
5. Slavery and the American individual
Revolution, resistance, and autonomy
Fit to be free
The extended legacy of civic texts

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-319) and index

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography

Classifications

Library of Congress
E310 .F97 2006, E310.F97 2006

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Pagination
335 p. :
Number of pages
335

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Open Library
OL17198990M
Internet Archive
innameoffather00furs
ISBN 10
1594200920
LCCN
2006043481
OCLC/WorldCat
66527258
Goodreads
933915

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