American slaveries since emancipation
This chapter explores the continuing existence of slavery-like practices within the United States itself and in its sites of imperial interest between the years 1870 and 1939. It also probes the changing ways that chattel slavery has been remembered and memorialized in the United States. It constructs a narrative of the nation’s selective forgetting and obscuring of slavery. The United States worked to sever its present from the past of “our slavery days,” refusing to countenance any continuities. There was also a denial of the persistence of slavery-like labor forms within the United States. This was vocally and actively challenged, resisted, manipulated, and adapted by the African American community and its allies; the chapter also tells this story.
History
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- Social Sciences and Humanities
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- International Relations, Politics and History
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout HistoryPages
567 - 582Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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2023-06-15Copyright date
2023ISBN
9783031132599; 9783031132605Publisher version
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- en