Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Curse upon the NationCondition: NewEAN: 9780820351278ISBN: 9780820351278Publisher: University of Georgia PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/15/2017Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Kay Wright LewisLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic WorldDescription: 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.To explain how this belief in an impending race war shaped eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American politics, culture, and commerce, Lewis examines a wide range of texts including letters, newspapers, pamphlets, travel accounts, slave narratives, government documents, and abolitionist tracts. She foregrounds her readings in the long record of exterminatory warfare in Europe and its colonies, placing lopsided reprisals against African slave revolts—or even rumors of revolts—in a continuum with past brutal incursions against the Irish, Scots, Native Americans, and other groups out of favor with the empire. Lewis also shows how extermination became entwined with ideas about race and freedom from early in the process of enslavement, making survival an important form of resistance for African peoples in America.For African Americans, enslaved and free, the potential for one-sided violence was always present and deeply traumatic. This groundbreaking study reevaluates how extermination shaped black understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and the political, social, and economic worlds in which it thrived.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A Curse upon the Nation
Title: A Curse upon the Nation
EAN: 9780820351278
ISBN: 9780820351278
Release Date: 08/15/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic Worl
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 292 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Curse Upon the Nation : Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Slavery, Discrimination & Race Relations, Anxieties & Phobias, Genocide & War Crimes, Violence in Society, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Self-Help, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Kay Wright Lewis
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
