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Mastering Emotions – Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States: America in the Nineteenth Century

Autor Erin Austin Dwyer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2021
"Mastering Emotions examines the role emotions played in the power dynamics between enslaved people and slaveholders in the antebellum South. Drawing on a variety of sources, Mastering Emotions explores how emotions were deployed to both reinforce and resist enslavement, and the post-Emancipation reverberations of the emotional politics of slavery" --
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812253399
ISBN-10: 0812253396
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 187 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.81 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria America in the Nineteenth Century


Cuprins

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


Notă biografică


Descriere

Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose how emotions such as love, terror, happiness, and trust functioned as social and economic capital for slaveholders and enslaved people alike.