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Disowning Slavery : Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860

9780801484377

Disowning Slavery : Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860

  • ISBN 13:

    9780801484377

  • ISBN 10:

    0801484375

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 11/01/2000
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Summary

Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources -- from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides -- Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but how its perceptions changed as well.

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