A dreadful deceit [electronic resource] : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America / Jacqueline Jones.
2013
E185.625 .J658 2013eb
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A dreadful deceit [electronic resource] : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America / Jacqueline Jones.
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9780465069804 electronic book
0465069800 electronic book
9780465036707
0465036708
0465069800 electronic book
9780465036707
0465036708
Published
New York : Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
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©2013
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English
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1 online resource (xvii, 381 pages) : illustrations
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E185.625 .J658 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.800973
Summary
"In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color of their skin and the economic injustices they battled, yet the former is what defines them in America's consciousness. In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of these two men and four other African Americans to reveal how the concept of race has obscured the factors that truly divide and unite us. Expansive, visionary, and provocative, A Dreadful Deceit explodes the pernicious fiction that has shaped American history"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Antonio: a killing in early colonial Maryland
Boston king: self-interested patriotism in revolutionary-era South Carolina
Elleanor Eldridge: "complexional hindrance" in antebellum Rhode Island
Richard W. White: "racial" politics in post-Civil War Savannah
William H. Holtzclaw: the "Black man's burden" in the heart of Mississippi
Simon P. Owens: a Detroit wildcatter at the point of production.
Boston king: self-interested patriotism in revolutionary-era South Carolina
Elleanor Eldridge: "complexional hindrance" in antebellum Rhode Island
Richard W. White: "racial" politics in post-Civil War Savannah
William H. Holtzclaw: the "Black man's burden" in the heart of Mississippi
Simon P. Owens: a Detroit wildcatter at the point of production.