Disowning Slavery
Subtitle: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780801484377
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; History of ideas, intellectual history; Slavery & emancipation; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Antislavery movements; United States - General; Social Science; History - U.S.; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; History: American; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; United States - 19th Century; African Americans; Discrimination & Racism; 18th century; 19th century; Civil rights; New England
First sentence: In the lifetime of New England slavery, whites across a spectrum of belief held a common set of assumptions about the limits and possibilities of the behavior and mental capacity of enslaved people of color-assumptions that were conditioned, however, by the belief that these characteristics had been heavily affected by enslavement and might be altered radically by freedom.