It took two hundred years to create the antebellum slave culture of the UnitedStates—a culture born of generations of social, psychological, and biological cross-ings between black and white, slave and free. It was a mixed, complex worldwhose very existence contradicted the assumptions of racial purity and differenceused to justify slavery. Masters and slaves shared in this contradictory world of“family” relations in the context of radical social and political separation. Slavenarratives, in revealing just how conflicted, desperate, and internalized a worldthis was, suggest that the psychological legacy of slavery may take two centuries tounmake.
- Remembering Slavery
- Jennifer Fleischner
- Roy L Brooks (Editor)
- When Sorry Isn't Enough, pp.333-335
- New York University Press; New York, USA
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- Adelphi University; College of Arts and Sciences; English
- English
- Book chapter
- https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814739471.003.0059
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