Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860 by Joanne Pope Melish

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

Joanne Pope Melish

296 pages digital 1998

3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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After slavery was abolished 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 r...

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