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Common bondage : slavery as metaphor in revolutionary America
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Common bondage : slavery as metaphor in revolutionary America / Peter A. Dorsey.
ISBN
9781572336711 (hardcover)
1572336714 (hardcover)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xviii, 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Quoting Cato : the Patriots' Trope
Mapping the slavery metaphor
Arms and the women : the slave metaphor and gender
Domesticity, slavery, and "an object truly ridiculous": De Cråvecoeur and the loyalist response
Contending "with a good grace": public positioning and the slavery metaphor
An "exchange of situation": revolution, race, and Jefferson's wheel of fortune
"A nobler strain": revolutionary rhetoric in the black Atlantic
Revolutionary declamation and the "compromising expedient of the constitution".
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