Slave or Free? White or Black? The Representation of George Latimer

Autor: Scott Gac
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: The New England Quarterly. 88:73-103
ISSN: 1937-2213
0028-4866
DOI: 10.1162/tneq_a_00436
Popis: When George Latimer fled Southern slavery in 1842, white abolitionists embraced the light-skinned fugitive as essentially white; yet when he died, though he had lived and worked in freedom for half a century, he was memorialized as a black slave. Such differing descriptions expose a radical transformation in the representation of black Americans across the nineteenth century.
Databáze: OpenAIRE