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Author Armstrong, Catherine, author

Title American slavery, American imperialism : US perceptions of global servitude, 1870-1914 / Catherine Armstrong, Loughborough University
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 289 pages) : illustrations
Series Slaveries since emancipation
Slaveries since emancipation
Contents A Rhetorical Continuum? How Representationsof Antebellum Slavery Endure in Post-War Culture -- Global Contexts: How External Factors Drive US Perceptions of Slavery -- Othering the Slave Owner -- Othering the Enslaved -- Gender and the Rhetoric of Slavery -- Resistance and the Slavery Counter-Narrative
Summary "This book will examine the interplay of various factors that influenced American perceptions of slavery and other forms of unfree, coerced or forced labour in the period after the emancipation of slaves within its own borders. It argues that while, undoubtedly, the shadow of antebellum chattel slavery loomed large in the American imagination, as influential was the model of imperial antislavery practised by European powers, especially after the United States itself developed an overseas empire in the 1890s. However, representations of slavery were not only a battleground on a geopolitical level. They were also used to work out the significance of competing scientific racial ideas, and also became a way for more radical thinkers to express their distaste for such ideas, while proposing new and more broad approaches to labour problems. Abolitionists were far from simplistic humanitarians and often their approach to the problem of slavery was a pragmatic one, designed as much to maintain control and hegemonic order as to give equal rights and opportunities to the world's poorest. This was especially the case when imagining the sexual enslavement of women, as gender and race intersected to provide a potent rhetoric intended to reinforce patriarchal dominance. This period, and especially the early twentieth century, does provide a significant evolution in the ways that slaves and slavery were described, and the United States' participation in international efforts to stop the phenomenon of slavery, and also increased endeavours to stamp out coercive labour practices within its own borders, reflected a foregrounding of more radical voices of resistance to the imperial standard."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 14, 2020)
Subject Forced labor -- Social aspects -- United States
Forced labor -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Sex discrimination against women.
Imperialism -- Moral and ethical aspects
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Antislavery movements
Imperialism -- Moral and ethical aspects
Sex discrimination against women
Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019044716
ISBN 9781108663908
1108663907
1108758541
9781108758543
Other Titles US perceptions of global servitude, 1870-1914