Book contents
- American Slavery, American Imperialism
- Slaveries since Emancipation
- American Slavery, American Imperialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A Rhetorical Continuum? How Representations of Antebellum Slavery Endure in Post-War Culture
- 2 Global Contexts: How External Factors Drive US Perceptions of Slavery
- 3 Othering the Slave Owner
- 4 Othering the Enslaved
- 5 Gender and the Rhetoric of Slavery
- 6 Resistance and the Slavery Counter-Narrative
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Othering the Slave Owner
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2020
Book contents
- American Slavery, American Imperialism
- Slaveries since Emancipation
- American Slavery, American Imperialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A Rhetorical Continuum? How Representations of Antebellum Slavery Endure in Post-War Culture
- 2 Global Contexts: How External Factors Drive US Perceptions of Slavery
- 3 Othering the Slave Owner
- 4 Othering the Enslaved
- 5 Gender and the Rhetoric of Slavery
- 6 Resistance and the Slavery Counter-Narrative
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter shows how representations of the perpetrators of post-bellum slavery used scientific racism to conceptualize slavery using racially motivated anti-imperialism. However, the rhetoric used in othering the slave owner in the Middle East & Pacific World was contested in popular culture, as comparison with ‘old slavery days’ was also used to humanize and justify forced labour practices. These rhetorical strategies sought flexibility in the definition of slavery, often resulting in a refusal to define particular practices as slavery.
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- American Slavery, American ImperialismUS Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914, pp. 107 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020