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Making Slavery History - Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts (Hardcover)
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Making Slavery History - Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts (Hardcover)
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Making Slavery History focuses on how commemorative practices and
historical arguments about the American Revolution set the course
for antislavery politics in the nineteenth century. The particular
setting is a time and place in which people were hyperconscious of
their roles as historical actors and narrators: Massachusetts in
the period between the Revolution and the Civil War. This book
shows how local abolitionists, both black and white, drew on their
state's Revolutionary heritage to mobilize public opposition to
Southern slavery. When it came to securing the citizenship of free
people of color within the Commonwealth, though, black and white
abolitionists diverged in terms of how they idealized black
historical agency.
Although it is often claimed that slavery in New England is a
history long concealed, Making Slavery History finds it hidden in
plain sight. From memories of Phillis Wheatley and Crispus Attucks
to representations of black men at the Battle of Bunker Hill,
evidence of the local history of slavery cropped up repeatedly in
early national Massachusetts. In fixing attention on these
seemingly marginal presences, this book demonstrates that slavery
was unavoidably entangled in the commemorative culture of the early
republic-even in a place that touted itself as the "cradle of
liberty."
Transcending the particular contexts of Massachusetts and the early
American republic, this book is centrally concerned with the
relationship between two ways of making history, through social and
political transformation on the one hand and through commemoration,
narration, and representation on the other. Making Slavery History
examines the relationships between memory and social change,
between histories of slavery and dreams of freedom, and between the
stories we tell ourselves about who we have been and the
possibilities we perceive for who we might become.
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