The Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South
during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on Blacks'
sense of self. Alex Bontemps focuses on slavery's effects on the
slaves' framework of self-awareness and understanding. Whites
wanted Blacks to act out the role "Negro" and Blacks faced a basic
dilemma of identity: how to retain an individualized sense of self
under the incredible pressure to be Negro? Bontemps addresses this
dynamic in The Punished Self.
The first part of The Punished Self reveals how patterns of
objectification were reinforced by written and visual
representations of enslavement. The second examines how captive
Africans were forced to accept a new identity and the expectations
and behavioral requirements it symbolized. Part 3 defines and
illustrates the tensions inherent in slaves' being Negro in order
to survive.
Bontemps offers fresh interpretations of runaway slave ads and
portraits. Such views of black people expressing themselves are
missing entirely from other historical sources. This book's
revelations include many such original examples of the survival of
the individual in the face of enslavement.
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