Description: Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819 (Pu... PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Fantasies of white slavery and the narratives of victimhood they spawn form the foundation of racist ideology. They also obscure the lived experience of trafficked servants and sailors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Gunther Peck moves deftly between the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds to discover where and when people with light skin color came to see themselves as white. Separating fact from fiction, and paying close attention to the ideological work each performs, Peck shows how laboring women and men leveraged their newfound whiteness to secure economic opportunity and political power.Peck argues that whiteness emerged not as a claim of racial superiority but as a byproduct of wide-ranging and rancorous public debate over trafficking and enslavement. Even as whiteness became a legal category that signaled privilege, trafficking and race remained tightly interwoven. Those advocating for the value of whiteness invoked emotionally freighted victimhood, claiming that so-called white slavery was a crime whose costs far exceeded those associated with the enslavement of African peoples across the Americas. Peck helps us understand the chilling history that produced the racist ideology that still poisons our politics in the present day. © Copyright . All rights reserved.
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MPN: 9781469675145
Number of Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Race Traffic : Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Slavery, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / General, African American
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Author: Gunther Peck
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
