[PDF.45xu] 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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 | #71964 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.| Five Stars|By Customer|Just the plain truth concerning America's hyper hypocrites.|4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Pot, meet kettle|By Beth Elliott|By now, it should be general knowledge among anyone presuming to comment on American race relations and the Civil/War Between the States that the Northern states| ||"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...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860   |  Joanne Pope Melish.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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