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The Power to Die
- Slavery and Suicide in British North America
Af: Terri L. Snyder
Engelsk Hardback
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The Power to Die
- Slavery and Suicide in British North America
Af: Terri L. Snyder
Engelsk Hardback
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The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they jumped into rivers or out of windows, or even ran into burning buildings. Faced with the reality of enslavement, countless Africans chose death instead. In The Power to Die, Terri L. Snyder excavates the history of slave suicide, returning it to its central place in early American history. How did people-traders, plantation owners, and, most importantly, enslaved men and women themselves-view and understand these deaths, and how did they affect understandings of the institution of slavery then and now? Snyder draws on ships' logs, surgeons' journals, judicial and legislative records, newspaper accounts, abolitionist propaganda and slave narratives, and many other sources to build a grim picture of slavery's toll and detail the ways in which suicide exposed the contradictions of slavery, serving as a powerful indictment that resonated throughout the Anglo-Atlantic world and continues to speak to historians today.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780226280561
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022628056X
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Udg. Dato:
28 aug 2015
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
28 aug 2015
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