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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... understanding— which is what the history of ideology really amounts to - one is not playing a barren game of pitting one cause against another cause , or one factor against another factor ; one is exploring the contemporary perception ...
... understanding— which is what the history of ideology really amounts to - one is not playing a barren game of pitting one cause against another cause , or one factor against another factor ; one is exploring the contemporary perception ...
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... understanding of slavery as being predominantly a " system of labor ” —an interpretation , as Moses Finley has demonstrated , of only recent invention ( that is , since the eighteenth century ) .9 Indeed , the exploitation of the labor ...
... understanding of slavery as being predominantly a " system of labor ” —an interpretation , as Moses Finley has demonstrated , of only recent invention ( that is , since the eighteenth century ) .9 Indeed , the exploitation of the labor ...
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... understanding that some former slaves ' actions , such as the response to the issue of the appren- ticeship of children , appeared illogical to the former slaveholders as well as to some of their allies . At the same time , the former ...
... understanding that some former slaves ' actions , such as the response to the issue of the appren- ticeship of children , appeared illogical to the former slaveholders as well as to some of their allies . At the same time , the former ...
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... understanding ideology as the concealment of the material interests of ruling groups , and therefore a distortion of the social reality , Ricoeur has reinterpreted this phenome- non using Clifford Geertz's insight that related " all the ...
... understanding ideology as the concealment of the material interests of ruling groups , and therefore a distortion of the social reality , Ricoeur has reinterpreted this phenome- non using Clifford Geertz's insight that related " all the ...
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... what constituted the general good that was becoming increasingly dominant at the time . Within such an understanding , for many of these " evangels " labor acquired the qualities of a religion , as can be seen Introduction 17.
... what constituted the general good that was becoming increasingly dominant at the time . Within such an understanding , for many of these " evangels " labor acquired the qualities of a religion , as can be seen Introduction 17.
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...