A Curse Upon The Nation: Race, Freedom, And Extermination In America And The Atlantic World - 9780820351278

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: The Legacy and Human Cost of Slavery -- CHAPTER ONE: "Nits Make Lice": Genocidal Violence in Colonial America -- CHAPTER TWO: A "State of War Continued": White Fear, Black Warriors -- CHAPTER THREE: "The Past Is Never Dead": The Continuity of African and European Warfare Practices -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Abridgment of Hope: After Nat Turner -- CHAPTER FIVE: "In the Hands of the Master": The Virginia Debates -- CHAPTER SIX: Would Have to "See His Blood Flow": Reopening the African Slave Trade -- CHAPTER SEVEN: John Brown's Mistake: The Power of Memory and the Dangers of Violence -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Making "Hell for a Country": The Civil War and Post-Civil War Era -- EPILOGUE: The"Place for Which Our Fathers Sighed" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y

• | Author: Kay Wright Lewis
• | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 292 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 082035127X
• | ISBN-13: 9780820351278