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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Clark-Pujara, Christy
Titre(s) : Dark work [Texte imprimé] : the business of slavery in Rhode Island / Christy Clark-Pujara
Publication : New York : New York University Press, copyright [2016]
Description matérielle : xiv, 205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Early American places
Lien à la collection : Early American places
Note(s) : "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references and index
"Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in
early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought
and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however,
nowhere else was this business so important. During the colonial period trade with
West Indian planters provided Rhode Islanders with molasses, the key ingredient for
their number one export: rum. More than 60 percent of all the slave ships that left
North America left from Rhode Island. During the antebellum period Rhode Islanders
were the leading producers of “negro cloth,” a coarse wool-cotton material made especially
for enslaved blacks in the American South. Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of
the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers,
and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to
reconstruct their lived experiences. The business of slavery encouraged slaveholding,
slowed emancipation and led to circumscribed black freedom. Enslaved and free black
people pushed back against their bondage and the restrictions placed on their freedom.
It is convenient, especially for northerners, to think of slavery as southern institution.
The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality
of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction—that
North has no history of racism to overcome. But we cannot afford such a delusion if
we are to truly reconcile with our past." --publisher description
Sujet(s) : Traite des esclaves -- Rhode Island (États-Unis) -- Histoire
Esclavage -- Rhode Island (États-Unis) -- Histoire
Esclaves -- Émancipation -- Rhode Island (États-Unis) -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781479870424 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1479870420 (cloth) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45704409j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45704409
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The business of slavery and the making of race ; Living and laboring under slavery
; Emancipation in black and white ; The legacies of enslavement ; Building a free
community ; Building a free state and nation.