Common bondage
Subtitle: slavery as metaphor in revolutionary America
By: Peter A. Dorsey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781572336711
Subjects: Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Revolutionaries -- United States -- Language -- History -- 18th century; Metaphor -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Propaganda
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Quoting Cato : the Patriots' Trope; title: Mapping the slavery metaphor; title: Arms and the women : the slave metaphor and gender; title: Domesticity, slavery, and "an object truly ridiculous": De Cråvecoeur and the loyalist response; title: Contending "with a good grace": public positioning and the slavery metaphor; title: An "exchange of situation": revolution, race, and Jefferson's wheel of fortune; title: "A nobler strain": revolutionary rhetoric in the black Atlantic; title: Revolutionary declamation and the "compromising expedient of the constitution".