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100 1 $aMelish, Joanne Pope.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97117455
245 10 $aDisowning slavery :$bgradual emancipation and "race" in New England, 1780-1860 /$cJoanne Pope Melish.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press,$c1998.
300 $axvii, 296 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tNew England Slavery.$t"Short of the Truth": Slavery in the Lives of Whites.$tAnother Truth: Enslavement in the Lives of People of Color --$g2.$tThe Antislavery Impulse.$tTo "Clear Our Spirits": Whites' Expectations of Freedom from Slavery.$tThe "Privilage of Freemen": Blacks' Expectations of Freedom from Slavery --$g3.$t"Slaves of the Community": Gradual Emancipation in Practice --$g4.$tA "Negro Spirit": Em-bodying Difference --$g5.$t"To Abolish the Black Man": Enacting the Antislavery Promise --$g6.$t"A Thing Unknown": The Free White Republic as New England Writ Large --$g7.$t"We Are the Alphabet": Free People of Color and the Discourse of "Race"
520 $aAfter slavery was abolished in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources - from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides - Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but how its perceptions changed as well.
520 8 $aMelish explores the origins of racial thinking and practices to show how ill prepared the region was to accept a population of free people of color in its midst. Because emancipation was gradual, whites transferred prejudices shaped by slavery to their relations with free people of color, and their attitudes were buttressed by abolitionist rhetoric that seemed to promise riddance of slaves as much as slavery.
520 8 $aShe tells how whites came to blame the impoverished condition of people of color on their innate inferiority, how racialization became an important component of New England antebellum nationalism, and how former slaves actively participated in this discourse by emphasizing their African identity.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$zNew England$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$zNew England$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zNew England$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zNew England$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlaves$xEmancipation$zNew England$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSlaves$xEmancipation$zNew England$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aNew England$xRace relations.
852 00 $bglx$hE445.N5$iM44 1998