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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.
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Race relations, Civil rights, Slaves, Emancipation, African Americans, Antislavery movements, History, Abolitionisme, Vrijlating, Sklaverei, Abschaffung, Geschichte 1780-1860, Slavernij, Rassenvorurteil, Rassenverhoudingen, Antislavery movements, united states, African americans, civil rights, Slaves, emancipation, united states, New england, social conditionsPlaces
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19th century, 18th centuryShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860
2016, Cornell University Press
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Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860
November 2000, Cornell University Press
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Disowning slavery: gradual emancipation and "race" in New England, 1780-1860
1998, Cornell University Press
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