Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860 by Joanne Pope Melish

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860

Joanne Pope Melish

320 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 Melis...

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