An edition of In the name of the father
(2006)
In the name of the father
Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation
by François Furstenberg
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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
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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
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-319) and index
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