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Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- And Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- And Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

Marshall, Kenneth E.

Paperback

Series: Gender and Race in American History, Book 2

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1580464351
ISBN13: 9781580464352
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: Aug 1 2013
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring intellectual and historical clarity to our understanding of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey.

Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes to an evolving body of historical scholarship arguing that the lives of bondpeople in America were shaped not only by the powerful forces of racial oppression, but also by their own notions of gender. The volume uses previously understudied, white-authored, nineteenth-century literature about central New Jersey slaves as a point of departure. Reading beyond the racist assumptionsof the authors, it contends that the precarious day-to-day existence of the three protagonists -- Yombo Melick, Dick Melick, and Quamino Buccau (Smock) -- provides revealing evidence about the various elements of slave manhood that gave real meaning to their oppressed lives.

Kenneth E. Marshall is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oswego.

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