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Author Lewis, Kay Wright, 1958- author.

Title A curse upon the nation : race, freedom, and extermination in America and the Atlantic world / Kay Wright Lewis.

Publication Info. Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. The legacy and human cost of slavery -- "Nits make lice": genocidal violence in colonial America -- A "state of war continued": white fear, black warriors -- "The past is never dead": the continuity of African and European warfare practices -- The abridgment of hope: after Nat Turner -- "In the hands of the master": the Virginia debates -- Seeing their blood flow: reopening the African slave trade -- John Brown's mistake: the power of memory and the dangers of violence -- Making "hell for a country": the Civil War and post-Civil War era -- Epilogue. the "place for which our fathers sighed."
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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Subject United States -- Race relations -- History.
United States.
Race relations.
History.
Slavery -- United States -- Influence.
Slavery.
Violence -- United States -- History.
Violence.
Slave rebellions -- Historiography.
Slave rebellions -- Historiography.
Slave rebellions.
African Americans -- Crimes against.
African Americans -- Crimes against.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Racism.
Fear -- Political aspects -- United States.
Fear -- Political aspects.
Fear.
Genocide -- Public opinion.
Genocide.
Public opinion.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Racism.
Added Title Race, freedom, and extermination in America and the Atlantic world
Other Form: Print version: Lewis, Kay Wright, 1958- Curse upon the nation. Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] 9780820351278 082035127X (DLC) 2017003724
ISBN 9780820351261 (electronic book)
0820351261 (electronic book)
9780820351278
082035127X