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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... slavery into the territories and , eventually , to emancipate slaves , the potential resem- blance between the plight of slaves and that of soldiers , both subject to extraordinary forms of violence , was especially acute . Even as ...
... slavery into the territories and , eventually , to emancipate slaves , the potential resem- blance between the plight of slaves and that of soldiers , both subject to extraordinary forms of violence , was especially acute . Even as ...
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Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. seemingly insurmountable forms of social difference . While mourners used corpses to help them materialize the intimacy between the living and the dead , reformers applied the ...
Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. seemingly insurmountable forms of social difference . While mourners used corpses to help them materialize the intimacy between the living and the dead , reformers applied the ...
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Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. their lost limbs . One soldier , a private , insists that his limb is " his own property " and that he wants it back . Brinton reminds the soldier that he enlisted for the duration ...
Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. their lost limbs . One soldier , a private , insists that his limb is " his own property " and that he wants it back . Brinton reminds the soldier that he enlisted for the duration ...
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Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. retribution provided a popular explanation for the extremity and dura- tion of battlefield carnage . This interpretation of the war derived from the belief , shared by many ...
Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. retribution provided a popular explanation for the extremity and dura- tion of battlefield carnage . This interpretation of the war derived from the belief , shared by many ...
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... slavery and mili- tary service . In abolitionist discourse , the scene of corporal punishment , in which slaveholders wielded unrestrained violence over the bodies of slaves , represented the excesses of slavery . Abolitionists ...
... slavery and mili- tary service . In abolitionist discourse , the scene of corporal punishment , in which slaveholders wielded unrestrained violence over the bodies of slaves , represented the excesses of slavery . Abolitionists ...
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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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