Lewis, Kay Wright Curse upon the nation 9780820351278

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Автор: Lewis, Kay Wright
Название: Curse upon the nation
ISBN: 9780820351278
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

Социальные группы

Этнические исследования

ISBN-10: 082035127X
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.60 кг.
Дата издания: 30.06.2017
Серия: Cultural/Regional Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 159 x 236 x 27
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,Social groups,Ethnic studies, HISTORY / United States / General,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
Подзаголовок: Race, freedom, and extermination in america and the atlantic world
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Поставляется из: Англии
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From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel the Civil War, thwart the aims of Reconstruction, justify Jim Crow, and even inform civil rights movement strategy. And yet, says Lewis, the historiography of slavery is all but silent on extermination as a category of analysis. Moreover, little of the existing sparse scholarship interrogates the black perspective on extermination. A Curse upon the Nation addresses both of these issues.

To explain how this belief in an impending race war shaped eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American politics, culture, and commerce, Lewis examines a wide range of texts including letters, newspapers, pamphlets, travel accounts, slave narratives, government documents, and abolitionist tracts. She foregrounds her readings in the long record of exterminatory warfare in Europe and its colonies, placing lopsided reprisals against African slave revolts--or even rumors of revolts--in a continuum with past brutal incursions against the Irish, Scots, Native Americans, and other groups out of favor with the empire. Lewis also shows how extermination became entwined with ideas about race and freedom from early in the process of enslavement, making survival an important form of resistance for African peoples in America.

For African Americans, enslaved and free, the potential for one-sided violence was always present and deeply traumatic. This groundbreaking study reevaluates how extermination shaped black understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and the political, social, and economic worlds in which it thrived.

Curse upon the nation, Lewis, Kay Wright