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A curse upon the nation
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A curse upon the nation
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ideas about race, freedom, and extermination in antebellum America
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Lewis
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Kay
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1958-
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Kay Lewis
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White
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Deborah Gray
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Deborah Gray White
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chair
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Lebsock
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Suzanne
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Suzanne Lebsock
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internal member
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Hewitt
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Nancy
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Nancy Hewitt
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Bay
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Mia
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Mia Bay
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Johnson
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Walter
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Walter Johnson
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2011
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2011-05
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eng
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This dissertation argues that ideas about black and white extermination in a war between the races influenced the development of slavery and precluded the acceptance of black freedom in America. Beyond the instrumentality of violence that we know was part of the master slave relationship, this study examines what impels white ideas in the eighteenth and nineteenth century that emancipation would ultimately lead to a race war. It attempts to demonstrate how ideas of extermination became part of the brutal legacy of racial control that sustained the institution of slavery and violence in the post-Civil War South. “A Curse Upon the Nation” traces the progression of these beliefs from the colonial period to the post Reconstruction era and how they traveled from Europe, Africa, and then to America, revealing that ideas about extermination became inextricably tied to race and freedom, making survival an important form of resistance for blacks in America.
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iv, 302 p.
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Ph.D.
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by Kay Lewis
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United States--Race relations
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Ethnic conflict--United States
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Liberty
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doi:10.7282/T3RX9BD5
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Lewis
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Kay
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2011-04-11 14:38:11
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2016-10-13
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2018-10-31
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 31, 2018.
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