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
1 - A Rhetorical Continuum? How Representations of Antebellum Slavery Endure in Post-War Culture
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 argues that there was a rhetorical continuum between ante and post-bellum descriptions of slavery in US popular culture as the legacies and memories of ‘old slavery days’ and abolitionism were the most significant points of comparison used by authors trying to delimit and understand mutable post-bellum slavery.
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- American Slavery, American ImperialismUS Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914, pp. 28 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020