The Economization of Freedom: Abolitionists versus Merchants in the Culture War that Destroyed Pennsylvania Hall
@article{Tomek2017TheEO, title={The Economization of Freedom: Abolitionists versus Merchants in the Culture War that Destroyed Pennsylvania Hall}, author={Beverly C. Tomek}, journal={Canadian Review of American Studies}, year={2017}, volume={47}, pages={171 - 198} }
Abstract:Throughout US history, white skin has held a non-pecuniary value, described by some as a "wage of whiteness" and, more recently, discussed as "white privilege." This idea, when placed alongside the sociological concept of "cultural capital," helps shed light on the importance of working-class whites to the material and ideological battle over slavery and its abolition. The 1838 anti-abolition attack that led to the destruction of Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia shows the importance…
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Slavery: annual bibliographical supplement (2017)
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For 2017 the bibliography continues its coverage of secondary writings published since 1900 in western European languages on slavery or the slave trade anywhere in the world: monographs, notes and…
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