American Slavery, American Imperialism: US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870-1914

ISBN-13: 9781108701914 / Miękka / 2023 / 297 str.

Catherine (Loughborough University) Armstrong

Opis

Details how Americans' perceptions of the institution of slavery changed between the end of the Civil War and the onset of World War I.

Recenzje

'Drawing astutely on recent scholarship, Armstrong illumines how, from Reconstruction to WWI, Americans manipulated their depictions of slavery, including its perpetrators and victims, to reinforce either a conservative or progressive racial, imperial, or gendered agenda … Recommended.' J. D. Smith, Choice

Spis treści

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A rhetorical continuum? How representations of antebellum slavery endure in post-war culture; 2. Global contexts: how external factors drive US perceptions of slavery; 3. Othering the slave owner; 4. Othering the enslaved; 5. Gender and the rhetoric of slavery; 6. Resistance and the slavery counter-narrative; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.