ISBN:
9780226280738
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white)
DDC:
306.362097
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Sklaverei
;
Suizid
;
Slaves Suicidal behavior
;
Slavery History
;
Suicide History
;
Nordamerika
Abstract:
Acts of suicide by enslaved people carried significant cultural, legal, and political implications in the emerging slave societies of British America and, later, the United States. This study features a wide range of evidence from ship logs and surgeon's journals, legal and legislative records, newspapers, periodicals, novels, and plays, abolitionist print and slave narratives in order to consider the intimate circumstances, cultural meanings, and political consequences of enslaved peoples' acts of self-destruction in the context of early American slavery.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226280738.001.0001/upso-9780226280561
URL:
http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226280738.001.0001/upso-9780226280561
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