Mastering Emotions - Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States

"Mastering Emotions examines the role emotions played in the power dynamics between enslaved people and slaveholders in the antebellum South. Drawing on a variety of sources, Mastering Emotions explores how emotions were deployed to both reinforce and resist enslavement, and the post-Emancipation reverberations of the emotional politics of slavery" --

List of contents

Introduction. The Emotional Politics of Slavery

Chapter 1. "To Change Their Sentiments"

Chapter 2. "Born and Reared in Slavery"

Chapter 3. "The Pursuit of Happiness"

Chapter 4. "Breach of Confidence"

Chapter 5. "Fear No Lash, nor Worse"

Chapter 6. "Enjoying Freedom"

Epilogue. "The Sentiment Left by Slavery Is Still with Us"

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Erin Austin Dwyer

Summary

Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose how emotions such as love, terror, happiness, and trust functioned as social and economic capital for slaveholders and enslaved people alike.

Product details

• Authors: Erin Austin Dwyer
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780812253399
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5339-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918