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In the name of the father Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation
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Title
In the name of the father [electronic resource] : Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation / François Furstenberg.
ISBN
9781101651049 (electronic bk.)
1101651040 (electronic bk.)
1594200920
9781594200922
Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Online version: Furstenberg, François. In the name of the father. New York : Penguin Press, 2006
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 10, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-319) and index.
Contents
What the nation was up against
The farewell
The threats: geographical, political, international
Consent, slavery, and the problem of U.S. nationalism
1. The apotheosis of George Washington
Washington dies
The nation's uncertain future
Civic texts: creating a new future
Partisanship
Nationalism and religion
Resignation, gratitude, and consent
2. Washington's family: slavery and the nation
George's death and Martha's predicament
Slavery and the national family
Washington as abolitionist
Washington and paternalism
Toward a consenting republic?
3. Mason Locke Weems: spreading the American gospel
Clergyman to evangelical bookseller: "true philanthropist and prudent speculator"
Weems and antipartisanship
Weem's Washington: a primer
An "ad captandum" book
Discriminating the "populi"
Selling Marshall's biography: Weems and civic texts
4. Civic texts for slave and free: inventing the autonomous American
Schoolbooks ad civic texts: the hidden bestsellers of early American literature
From the Columbian orator to the English reader: the making of the autonomous individual
Slavery and reading: the specter of uncontrolled slaves
Civic texts for slaves, self-control, and the inculcation of slave autonomy
5. Slavery and the American individual
Revolution, resistance, and autonomy
Fit to be free
The extended legacy of civic texts.
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