Joanne Pope Melish: 2 books
Disowning Slavery
Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but...
Race and the Early Republic
Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the "white republic."
Race and the...