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Mastering emotions : feelings, power, and slavery in the United States

Feelings, power, and slavery in the United States (portion title)

Summary: "Mastering Emotions examines the role emotions played in the power dynamics between enslaved people and slaveholders in the antebellum South. Drawing on a variety of sources, Mastering Emotions explores how emotions were deployed to both reinforce and resist enslavement, and the post-Emancipation reverberations of the emotional politics of slavery"--

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ISBN: 9780812253399
ISBN: 0812253396
Physical Description: print
284 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction. The emotional politics of slavery -- To change their sentiments -- Born and reared in slavery -- The pursuit of happiness -- Breach of confidence -- Fear no lash, nor worse -- Enjoying freedom -- Epilogue. The sentiment left by slavery is still with us.