The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader

Informationen zum Autor Kari J. Winter is a professor of American studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of "Subjects of Slavery! Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives! 1790-1865" (Georgia) and editor of "The Blind African Slave: Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch! Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace." Klappentext As a young man, John B. Prentis (1788-1848) expressed outrage over slavery, but by the end of his life he had transported thousands of enslaved persons from the upper to the lower South. Kari J. Winter's life-and-times portrayal of a slave trader illuminates the clash between two American dreams: one of wealth, the other of equality. Zusammenfassung The first major biography of an unrepentant slave trader, this story illuminates the intertwined politics of labor, race, class, and gender in the young American nation. Winter’s life-and-times portrayal of a Prentis illuminates the clash between two American dreams: one of wealth, the other of equality.

Product details

• Authors: Kari Winter, Kari J. Winter
• Assisted by: Patrick Rael (Editor), Manisha Sinha (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2011
• EAN: 9780820338385
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3838-5
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 17; Race in the Atlantic World, 17; Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History