American Slavery, American Imperialism - Us Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870-1914

List of contents

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A rhetorical continuum? How representations of antebellum slavery endure in post-war culture; 2. Global contexts: how external factors drive US perceptions of slavery; 3. Othering the slave owner; 4. Othering the enslaved; 5. Gender and the rhetoric of slavery; 6. Resistance and the slavery counter-narrative; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Catherine Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in American History at Loughborough University.

Summary

Armstrong charts the legacy of slavery in the United States by tracing the representations of global slavery's victims and perpetrators in popular culture after the Civil War. In doing so, she reveals the rhetorical manoeuvres that were used to justify exploitation and forced labour both in the US and globally.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Armstrong, Catherine (Loughborough University) Armstrong, Armstrong Catherine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108477093
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47709-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Slaveries since Emancipation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / African American, History - U.S., c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, C 1900 - C 1914, Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / African American & Black, c 1890 to c 1929 (Progressive Era in the USA)