Mastering Emotions : : Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States / / Erin Austin Dwyer.
Emotions were central to the ways that slaveholders perpetuated slavery, as well as to the ways that enslaved people survived and challenged bondage and experienced freedom. Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | America in the Nineteenth Century
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 0 illus |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction. The Emotional Politics of Slavery
- Chapter 1. “To Change Their Sentiments”
- Chapter 2. “Born and Reared in Slavery”
- Chapter 3. “The Pursuit of Happiness”
- Chapter 4. “Breach of Confidence”
- Chapter 5. “Fear No Lash, nor Worse”
- Chapter 6. “Enjoying Freedom”
- Epilogue. “The Sentiment Left by Slavery Is Still with Us”
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments