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The Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on Blacks' sense of self. Alex Bontemps focuses on slavery's effects on the slaves' framework of self-awareness and understanding. Whites wanted Blacks to act out the role Negro and Blacks faced a basic dilemma of identity: how to retain an individualized sense of self under the incredible pressure to be Negro? Bontemps addresses this dynamic in The Punished Self. The first part of The Punished Self reveals how patterns of objectification were reinforced by written and visual representations of enslavement. The second examines how captive Africans were forced to accept a new identity and the expectations and behavioral requirements it symbolized. Part 3 defines and illustrates the tensions inherent in slaves' being Negro in order to survive. Bontemps offers fresh interpretations of runaway slave ads and portraits. Such views of black people expressing themselves are missing entirely from other historical sources. This book's revelations include many such original examples of the survival of the individual in the face of enslavement.
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Jorge Pena Duran
reviewed Punished Self : Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South on February 04, 2016
Punished Self : Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South
Four short lectures from c. 1900 - 2 by Booker T; 2 by WEBD.
Most notable about Booker T is his tactical admiration for white civilization (going so far as to see the silver lining in slavery - the chance to shed the savagery of Africa and begin to learn from the white man). He also expresses a patient and non-threatening desire to lift the negro race up to the level of the white in due time, and makes a strong connection between good honest work and dignity and success (and the necessity of erasing the negative attitudes towards manual labor caused by slavery).
DuBois's first essay recounts the South's rejection of the industrial revolution in favor of King Cotton, and the New South's process of catching up with the North after the Civil War. DuBois takes a much more negative, angry view of Redemption / Jim Crow, especially the stifling of the 15th Amendment and the re-establishment of slavery in all but name (peonage/sharecropping). Sees strength in urban migration and "Group Economy" - closed economic circle of Negros, largely independent from whites. Sees the south stuck between a desire to industrialize, and a refusal to allow the blacks to become a viable, educated working class...
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