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Making Slavery History - Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts (Paperback)
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Making Slavery History - Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts (Paperback)
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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. Winner of the 2011 Best First Book Award from the Society
for Historians of the Early American Republic.
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