John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarUNC Press Books, 2004 - 226 páginas Singing "John Brown's Body" as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a m |
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... punishment . Each allows us to understand the cultural significance of dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions for representing , studying , and disci- plining African American bodies . Antebellum mourners beautified the corpse ...
... punishment . Each allows us to understand the cultural significance of dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions for representing , studying , and disci- plining African American bodies . Antebellum mourners beautified the corpse ...
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... punish the errant nation in retribution for the suffering inflicted on generations of slaves . Slavery , he predicted , " will never be purged away ; but with Blood . " 19 Anticipating widespread violence , Brown rehearsed one of the ...
... punish the errant nation in retribution for the suffering inflicted on generations of slaves . Slavery , he predicted , " will never be purged away ; but with Blood . " 19 Anticipating widespread violence , Brown rehearsed one of the ...
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... punishing God , the spectacle of mass death on the battlefield promised a radical reordering that would pave the way for equality and harmony . At the site of execution , however , where the ... punishment . In doing so , 10 INTRODUCTION.
... punishing God , the spectacle of mass death on the battlefield promised a radical reordering that would pave the way for equality and harmony . At the site of execution , however , where the ... punishment . In doing so , 10 INTRODUCTION.
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... punishment . In doing so , legislators implicitly acknowledged the inflammatory comparison between slavery and mili- tary service . In abolitionist discourse , the scene of corporal punishment , in which slaveholders wielded ...
... punishment . In doing so , legislators implicitly acknowledged the inflammatory comparison between slavery and mili- tary service . In abolitionist discourse , the scene of corporal punishment , in which slaveholders wielded ...
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Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. rogates for a punishing God and , in this way , mediated the government's relation to the spectacle of mass death . Viewed in this light , the war dead not only redressed the sin ...
Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. rogates for a punishing God and , in this way , mediated the government's relation to the spectacle of mass death . Viewed in this light , the war dead not only redressed the sin ...
Contenido
The Blood of Millions John Browns Body Public Violence and Political Community | 14 |
The Blood of Black Men Rethinking Radical Science | 40 |
This Compost Death and Regeneration in Civil War Poetry | 71 |
Photographing the War Dead | 103 |
After Emancipation | 132 |
Glory | 165 |
Notes | 177 |
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