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'I Felt All This'

'I Felt All This'

Wilson, Beth R.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies on Black Women in Us History

19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1009709402
ISBN13: 9781009709408
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 243
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Drawing on methods from the history of emotions to study enslaved people's lives, Beth R. Wilson exposes the social, cultural and political role that emotion played in the US South. Exploring both individual and collective emotions, Wilson shows how enslaved people resisted white people's attempts to restrict their feelings and expressions by developing their own emotional ideals and expectations. Moving through case studies that examine a range of underexplored forms of testimony, the book introduces readers to slave narratives, letters, written interviews and recorded testimony to show that emotion was central to how enslaved people resisted, survived and remembered the system of slavery. Enslaved people's descriptions of their individual experiences of love, pain, grief and joy are woven throughout this study, which provides a framework that historians can use to paint a nuanced, detailed and empathetic picture of the complex emotional impact of slavery.

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