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A curse upon the nation: race, freedom, and extermination in America and the Atlantic world

By Lewis , Kay Wright

Book information

Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780820351278, 9780820351261, 082035127X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1562247 bytes)
Pages
281 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
African Americans--Crimes against;Fear--Political

Description

"From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel the Civil War, thwart the aims of Reconstruction, justify Jim Crow, and even inform civil rights movement strategy. And yet, says Lewis, the historiography of slavery is all but silent on extermination as a category of analysis. Moreover, little of the existing sparse scholarship interrogates the black perspective on extermination. A Curse upon the Nation addresses both of these issues."...Provided by publisher.

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