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Author : Richard Bruce Erno
Release : 1961
Genre : African Americans
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Book Synopsis Dominant Images of the Negro in the Ante-bellum South by : Richard Bruce Erno
Download or read book Dominant Images of the Negro in the Ante-bellum South written by Richard Bruce Erno. This book was released on 1961. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. McKivigan
Release : 1998
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery by : John R. McKivigan
Download or read book Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery written by John R. McKivigan. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss proslavery arguments in the churches, the urge toward compromise and unity, the coming of schisms in the various denominations, and the role of local conditions in determining policies
Author : Diane Miller Sommerville
Release : 2005-10-12
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South by : Diane Miller Sommerville
Download or read book Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South written by Diane Miller Sommerville. This book was released on 2005-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century. Sommerville demonstrates that despite draconian statutes, accused black rapists frequently avoided execution or castration, largely due to intervention by members of the white community. This leniency belies claims that antebellum white southerners were overcome with anxiety about black rape. In fact, Sommerville argues, there was great fluidity across racial and sexual lines as well as a greater tolerance among whites for intimacy between black males and white females. According to Sommerville, pervasive misogyny fused with class prejudices to shape white responses to accusations of black rape even during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, a testament to the staying power of ideas about poor women's innate depravity. Based predominantly on court records and supporting legal documentation, Sommerville's examination forces a reassessment of long-held assumptions about the South and race relations as she remaps the social and racial terrain on which southerners--black and white, rich and poor--related to one another over the long nineteenth century.
Author : Alfred N. Hunt
Release : 2006-08-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America by : Alfred N. Hunt
Download or read book Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America written by Alfred N. Hunt. This book was released on 2006-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians -- slaves, white colonists, and free blacks -- fled the upheaval and flooded southern U.S. ports -- most notably New Orleans -- bringing with them everything from French opera to voodoo. Alfred N. Hunt discusses the ways these immigrants affected southern agriculture, architecture, language, politics, medicine, religion, and the arts. He also considers how the events in Haiti influenced the American slavery-emancipation debate and spurred developments in black militancy and Pan-Africanism in the United States. By effecting the development of racial ideology in antebellum America, Hunt concludes, the Haitian Revolution was a major contributing factor to the attitudes that led to the Civil War.
Author : Stacey K. Close
Release : 2015-12-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Elderly Slaves of the Plantation South by : Stacey K. Close
Download or read book Elderly Slaves of the Plantation South written by Stacey K. Close. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elderly slaves contributed substantially to the creation and perpetuation of the unique African American culture and antebellum plantation society in the South. Interwoven with this major argument are two subthemes. One centers on the fact that by the late antebellum period elderly slaves were some of the chief transmitters of Africanism; the other focuses on how gender based distinctions of the elderly became blurred. Although the roles of the elderly often changed, elderly slaves contributed to the plantation economy. It is also true that those old people who were incapacitated posed serious economic and social concerns for owners, although many of the problems of elderly care were solved by the compassion of slave community members (Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1992; revised with new preface and index)
