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Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "house divided against itself," as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont wrote slavery out of its state constitution, to 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationwide. Rael immerses readers in the mix of social, geographic, economic, and political factors that

The emancipation of the negro abolitionist / Leon F. Litwack -- Black power- the debate in 1840 / Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease -- Elevating the race: the social thought of black leaders, 1827-50 / Fredrick Cooper -- Black history's antebellum origins / Benjamin Quarles -- "Since they got those separate churches": Afro-Americans and racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia / Emma Jones Lapsansky -- Interpreting early black ideology: a reappraisal of historical consensus / George A. Levesque -- Afro-American identity: reflections on the pre-civil war era / Ernest Allen, Jr. -- Freedom's yoke: gender conventions among antebellum free blacks / James Oliver Horton -- The political significance of slave resistance / James Oakes -- "Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands": black destiny in nineteenth-century America / Albert J. Raboteau -- The emergence of racial modernity and the rise of the white north, 1790-1840 / James Brewer Stewart -- From abolitionist amalgamators to "rulers of the five points": the discourse of interracial sex and reform in antebellum New York City / Leslie M. Harris -- The market revolution and market values in antebellum black protest thought / Patrick Rael

Cover -- Pamphlets of Protest -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Absalom Jones and Richard Allen "A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia" (1794) -- 2. Prince Hall "A Charge" (1797) -- 3. Daniel Coker "A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister" (1810 ) -- 4. James Forten "Series of Letters by a Man of Colour" (1813) -- 5. Russell Parrott "An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade" (1814) -- 6. Prince Saunders "An Address before the Pennsylvania Augustine Society" (1818 ) -- 7. Robert Alexander Young "Ethiopian Manifesto" (1829) -- 8. David Walker "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" (1829, 1830) -- 9. William Hamilton "Address to the National Convention of 1834" (1834) -- 10. Elizabeth Wicks "Address Delivered Before the African Female Benevolent Society of Troy"(1834) -- 11. Maria W. Stewart "Productions" (1835) -- 12. Robert Purvis "Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania" (1837) -- 13. David Ruggles "New York Committee of Vigilance for the Year 1837, together with Important Facts Relative to Their Proceedings" (1837) -- 14. Henry Highland Garnet "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" (1848) -- 15. "Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People" (1847) -- 16. "Report of the Proceedings of the Colored National Convention . . . held in Cleveland" (1848) -- 17. John W. Lewis "Essay on the Character and Condition of the African Race" (1852) -- 18. Mary Ann Shadd "A Plea for Emigration, or Notes of Canada West" (1852) -- 19. Frederick Douglass, et al. "Address to the People of the United States" (1853) -- 20. Martin Delany "Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent" (1854).

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "CONTENTS" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "INTRODUCTION Colonial Body Politics Linking the Punished Body to the British West Indian Social Order" -- "CHAPTER 1 Six-Legged Women and Derby's Dose The White Imagination and Narratives of Bad Bodies and Good Punishments" -- "CHAPTER 2 The Persistence of Corporeality The Apprentice's Punished Body and the Maintenance of the Socio-racial Structure in Barbados and Jamaica, 1834– 1838" -- "CHAPTER 3 The Entanglements of Freedom Bodies of Laws and Their Role in the Reinforcement of the Socio-racial Order" -- "CHAPTER 4 Confined Spaces, Constrained Bodies Land, Labor, and Confinement in Barbados after 1834" -- "CHAPTER 5 Enclosing Contagion Aberrant Bodies and Penal Confinement in Jamaica" -- "CHAPTER 6 The Punished Black Body and the Public's Gaze Demarcating Socio-racial Structures through the Theatrics of Punishment" -- "CHAPTER 7 The Difference That Gender Makes Punishment and the Gendered Body in Post-emancipation Jamaica and Barbados" -- "EPILOGUE Final Thoughts on What It Means to Punish Black Bodies" -- "Appendix" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "Index" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W