[PDF.05dd] Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860

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 | #336071 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2000-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.71 x6.14l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Views on slavery|By Charles Nicholas|Really good book with an often neglected insight to slavery. Could have focused a little more on who sold the slaves vs who bought them. I.e. tribal warlords or Arab slave traders.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Customer|Just the plain truth concerning Am| ||"Joanne Pope Melish argues that the need to portray a virtuous North battling the slave-holding South during the Civil War resulted in the creation of a 'mythology of a free New England' in the antebellum period and that the notion persists to this day. . . .

Following the abolition of slavery 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 pe...

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