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Biography, History, History and criticism, Influence, Political aspects, Political aspects of Slavery, Political culture, Politics and government, Presidents, Slavery, Textbooks, Washington, george, 1732-1799, Slavery, united states, history, United states, politics and government, 1789-1815Places
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In the name of the father: Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation
2006, Penguin Press
in English
1594200920 9781594200922
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Table of Contents
What the nation was up against
The farewell
The threats: geographical, political, international
Consent, slavery, and the problem of U.S. nationalism
1. The apotheosis of George Washington
Washington dies
The nation's uncertain future
Civic texts: creating a new future
Partisanship
Nationalism and religion
Resignation, gratitude, and consent
2. Washington's family: slavery and the nation
George's death and Martha's predicament
Slavery and the national family
Washington as abolitionist
Washington and paternalism
Toward a consenting republic?
3. Mason Locke Weems: spreading the American gospel
Clergyman to evangelical bookseller: "true philanthropist and prudent speculator"
Weems and antipartisanship
Weem's Washington: a primer
An "ad captandum" book
Discriminating the "populi"
Selling Marshall's biography: Weems and civic texts
4. Civic texts for slave and free: inventing the autonomous American
Schoolbooks ad civic texts: the hidden bestsellers of early American literature
From the Columbian orator to the English reader: the making of the autonomous individual
Slavery and reading: the specter of uncontrolled slaves
Civic texts for slaves, self-control, and the inculcation of slave autonomy
5. Slavery and the American individual
Revolution, resistance, and autonomy
Fit to be free
The extended legacy of civic texts
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-319) and index
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