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Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to
bring intellectual and historical clarity to our understanding of
enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
central New Jersey. Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of
three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical
clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and
early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held
in bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes to an
evolving body of historical scholarship arguing that the lives of
bondpeople in America were shaped not only by the powerful forces
of racial oppression, but also by their own notions of gender. The
volume uses previously understudied, white-authored,
nineteenth-century literature about central New Jersey slaves as a
point of departure. Reading beyond the racist assumptionsof the
authors, it contends that the precarious day-to-day existence of
the three protagonists -- Yombo Melick, Dick Melick, and Quamino
Buccau (Smock) -- provides revealing evidence about the various
elements of "slave manhood" that gave real meaning to their
oppressed lives. Kenneth E. Marshall is Assistant Professor of
History at the State University of New York at Oswego.
Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to
bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted
lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in
bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes to an
evolving body of historical scholarship arguing that the lives of
bondpeople in America were shaped not only by the powerful forces
of racial oppression, but also by their own notions of gender. The
book uses previously understudied, white-authored,
nineteenth-century literature about central New Jersey slaves as a
point of departure. Reading beyond the racist assumptions of the
authors, it contends that the precarious day-to-day existence of
the three protagonists -- Yombo Melick, Dick Melick, and Quamino
Buccau (Smock) -- provides revealing evidence about the various
elements of "slave manhood" that gave real meaning to their
oppressed lives. Kenneth E. Marshall is Assistant Professor of
History at the State University of New York at Oswego.
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