A curse upon the nation : race, freedom, and extermination in America and the Atlantic world

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A curse upon the nation : race, freedom, and extermination in America and the Atlantic world

Title remainder

race, freedom, and extermination in America and the Atlantic world

Statement of responsibility

Kay Wright Lewis

Title variation

Race, freedom, and extermination in America and the Atlantic world

Creator

• Lewis, Kay Wright, 1958-

Author

• Lewis, Kay Wright, 1958-

Subject

• Genocide -- Public opinion
• Racism -- United States -- History
• Slave insurrections -- Historiography
• African Americans -- Crimes against
• United States -- Race relations | History
• Violence -- United States -- History
• Slavery -- United States -- Influence
• Fear -- Political aspects -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel the Civil War, thwart the aims of Reconstruction, justify Jim Crow, and even inform civil rights movement strategy. And yet, says Lewis, the historiography of slavery is all but silent on extermination as a category of analysis. Moreover, little of the existing sparse scholarship interrogates the black perspective on extermination. A Curse upon the Nation addresses both of these issues."--Provided by publisher

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DLC

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography