Inventing New England's Slave Paradise Master/Slave Relations in Eighteenth-Century Narragansett, Rhode Island
- List Price: $158.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- Publish date: 11/01/1998
Description:
Fitts engages the dual purposes of correcting the conventional view of slavery in New England as warm and fuzzy, and of demonstrating that history is a creation that reflects contemporary social issues rather than the discovery of facts. He examines how historians of the 19th century sanitized the history of slavery in the region, then exhibits primary sources documenting methods planters used to control their slaves and the response of slaves.
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