Bibliograph

A dreadful deceit, the myth of race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America, Jacqueline Jones

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A dreadful deceit, the myth of race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America, Jacqueline Jones

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A dreadful deceit

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

862938322

Responsibility statement

Jacqueline Jones

Sub title

the myth of race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction; 1. Antonio: A Killing in Early Colonial Maryland; 2. Boston King: Self-Interested Patriotism in Revolutionary-Era South Carolina; 3. Elleanor Eldridge: ""Complexional Hindrance"" in Antebellum Rhode Island; 4. Richard W. White: ""Racial"" Politics in Post-Civil War Savannah; 5. William H. HOltzclaw: The ""Black Man's Burden"" in the Heart of Mississippi; 6. Simon P. Owens: A Detroit Wildcatter at the Point of Production; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Notes; Index

Target audience

adult

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Contributor