Table of Contents: Mastering emotions

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

"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-Emancipati...

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Main Author:	Dwyer, Erin Austin,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Physical Description:	284 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:	America in the nineteenth century.
Subjects:	Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century. Emotions -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Freed persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Enslavers -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Slaveholders -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

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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
The sentiment left by slavery is still with us.

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

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