Challenging the traditional timeline and story of antislavery found in scholarly works and textbooks, Norrece Jones traces the origins of abolition to the first Africans enslaved. This radical reinterpretation refutes the gospel of slavery and antislavery as separate chapters in American history by focusing on opposition to the culture of racism that sanctioned the purchase and ownership of human flesh.To develop this theme, the volume explores five major problems: racism, slavery and antislavery, paternalism, regional biases, and gender. Part One looks at the origins of racism in Colonial America. Part Two examines the struggle to abolish slavery in white, free black and enslaved black groups, Part Three looks at the role of patriarchy, Part Four looks at the bias against the South in role of slavery and the invisibility of slave abolitionists and finally in Part Five the role of gender in antislavery.In this unique and concise introduction, African Americans are presented more accurately and assertively as playing an active role to abolish the institution that enslaved them.
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-1-57718-005-0 (9781577180050)
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Norrece T. Jones is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and Visiting Professor at the University of Houston. He is the author of Born a Child of Freedom Yet a Slave, 1990, University Press of New England.
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Virginia Commonwealth University
Part I: The Problem of Race in British Colonial Mainland North America and United States Slavery Historiography: 1. Racial Slavery and Victimised Slaves. Part II: The Problem of Slave and Free Slavery: 2. Slave Abolitionists. 3. White and Free Black Abolitionists. 4. White Patriarchs and Their Multiracial Families. Part III: The Problem of Slavery and Antislavery in the North and the South: 5. Biases Against the South. 6. The Invisibility of Slave Abolitionists. Part IV: The Problem of Gender: 7. Feminism Slavery and the Historiography of Antislavery.
