The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. SouthUniv of North Carolina Press, 2002 - 238 pages This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of po |
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... argument of the book , and I thank the scholars for their very careful and informed reading of the work . Since I began teaching at Ohio State University ( OSU ) , I have piled up additional debts . I would like to thank the Department ...
... argument of the book , and I thank the scholars for their very careful and informed reading of the work . Since I began teaching at Ohio State University ( OSU ) , I have piled up additional debts . I would like to thank the Department ...
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... argued that events during the postslavery era , beginning with the way in which emancipation was concep- tualized ... argument here extends this assertion to the postslavery situation , 7.
... argued that events during the postslavery era , beginning with the way in which emancipation was concep- tualized ... argument here extends this assertion to the postslavery situation , 7.
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... argument , the present investigation illustrates why a detailed examination of these two postslavery institutions can provide insight into the way in which the emancipation pro- cess evolved . Moreover , the methodological approach ...
... argument , the present investigation illustrates why a detailed examination of these two postslavery institutions can provide insight into the way in which the emancipation pro- cess evolved . Moreover , the methodological approach ...
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... argument maintains the premise that the social and the symbolic cannot be separated : " All social activity has a symbolic dimension that gives it meaning , just as all symbolic activity has a social dimension that gives it point . " 13 ...
... argument maintains the premise that the social and the symbolic cannot be separated : " All social activity has a symbolic dimension that gives it meaning , just as all symbolic activity has a social dimension that gives it point . " 13 ...
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... argument here insists that the participants in the emancipation process " clearly intended to say some things and not ... argued that languages emerge as products of history , while at the same time they can become historical agents that ...
... argument here insists that the participants in the emancipation process " clearly intended to say some things and not ... argued that languages emerge as products of history , while at the same time they can become historical agents that ...
Contents
The Song That Antislavery Sung Abolition and the Great Transformation | 23 |
A Steady and Certain Command of Labour Political Languages in the Immediate Postemancipation AngloAmericas | 41 |
This Work of Civilization The Secular Evangelical Mission of the Special Magistrates and the Freedmens Bureau Officials | 67 |
The Vexed Question of Original Unity The Political Language of Race and the Politics of Emancipation | 101 |
Delusions of a False Canaan On Morant Bay Redemption and the Incomplete Victory of Emancipation | 131 |
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Page 13 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 3 - For this much all men know: despite compromise, war, and struggle, the Negro is not free. In the backwoods of the Gulf States, for miles and miles, he may not leave the plantation of his birth; in well-nigh the whole rural South the black farmers are peons, bound by law and custom to an economic slavery, from which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges. Before...