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Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860 Book

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860
Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860, 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 , Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860 has a rating of 5 stars
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Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860, 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 , Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860
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  • Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860
  • Written by author Joanne Pope Melish
  • Published by Cornell University Press, June 1998
  • 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
  • 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
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Preface
List of Archives Cited
Introduction1
1New England Slavery11
"Short of the Truth": Slavery in the Lives of Whites11
Another Truth: Enslavement in the Lives of People of Color41
2The Antislavery Impulse50
To "Clear Our Spirits": Whites' Expectations of Freedom from Slavery50
The "Privilage of Freemen": Blacks' Expectations of Freedom from Slavery79
3"Slaves of the Community": Gradual Emancipation in Practice84
4A "Negro Spirit": Em-bodying Difference119
5"To Abolish the Black Man": Enacting the Antislavery Promise163
6"A Thing Unknown": The Free White Republic as New England Writ Large210
7"We Are the Alphabet": Free People of Color and the Discourse of "Race"238
Index287


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