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Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America: A Short History

Kenneth Morgan

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In Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America, Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labor systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies. Throughout, overriding themes emerge: the labor market in North America, the significance of racial distinctions, supply and demand factors in transatlantic migration and labor, and resistance to bondage.

This is an ideal introduction to an area that is crucial for understanding not just Colonial American society but also the later development of the United States.

Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University.
History / Pub. 9/15/2001 / 160 pages
ISBN: 0814756697 / $45.00 cloth
ISBN: 0814756700 / $16.00 paper

The Fair Sex : White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic
by Pauline Schloesser

Book Description
Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nation settled into a conservative period
that saw the legal and social subordination of women and non-white men. Among the Founders who brought the fledgling
government into being were those who sought to establish order through the reconstruction of racial and gender hierarchies.
In this effort they enlisted "the fair sex,"-white women. Politicians, ministers, writers, husbands, fathers and brothers entreated Anglo-American women to assume responsibility for the nation's virtue. Thus, although disfranchised, they served an important
national function, that of civilizing non-citizen. They were encouraged to consider themselves the moral and intellectual superiors to non-whites, unruly men, and children. These white women were empowered by race and ethnicity, and class, but limited by gender. And in seeking to maintain their advantages, they helped perpetuate the system of racial domination by refusing to support the liberation of others from literal slavery.

Schloesser examines the lives and writings of three female political intellectuals-Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Smith Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray-each of whom was acutely aware of their tenuous position in the founding era of the republic. Carefully negotiating the gender and racial hierarchies of the nation, they at varying times asserted their rights and demurred to male governance. In their public and private actions they represented the paradigm of racial patriarchy at its most complex and its most conflicted. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Pauline Schloesser is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Southern University, Houston.

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Hardcover - 304 pages (February 2002)
New York University Press; ISBN: 0814797636

The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature
A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations

Edited by Marc Shell, Werner Sollors

Literature / Pub. 7/1/2000 / 688 pages
ISBN: 0814797520 / $65.00 cloth
ISBN: 0814797539 / $26.00 paper

"What exactly constitutes American literature? Harvard professors Marc Shell (OVERDUE; ART AND MONEY) and
Werner Sollors (THEORIES OF ETHNICITY; BLACKS AT HARVARD; MULTILINGUAL AMERICA) offer a
unique and fascinating twist with THE MULTILINGUAL ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: A
READER OF ORIGINAL TEXTS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS. They say that American literature doesn't
include only material written in English--it includes a Lenape epic, WALAM OLUM; it includes Omar Ibn Said's
African-American narrative in Arabic; it includes Victor Sejour's French story "Le Mutatre." Twenty-nine works are here,
in languages ranging from Russian and Yiddish to Welsh and Norwegian, along with English translations, reminding us
of America's polyglot roots."
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

An 1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American immigrant novel
published in Welsh. The Native American epic, Walum Olum, in the Lenape language. Theodor Adorno's dream
transcripts, in German. A short story about the politics of abortion in working-class Chinatown. "Lesbian Love," a
surprisingly explicit chapter from an 1853 New Orleans novel. A haunting 1904 ballad, "The Revenge of the Forests,"
that is one of the first expressions of radical environmentalism in the United States.

Largely ignored in the debates over canon and multiculturalism in America, indigenous American works written in
languages other than English have over time disappeared from view.

The first anthology of its kind, The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature brings together American
writings in diverse languages from Arabic and Spanish to Swedish and Yiddish, among others. Presenting each work in
its original language with facing page translation, the book provides an important complement to all other anthologies of
American writing, and will serve to complicate our understanding of what exactly American literature is.

American literature appears here as more than an offshoot of a single mother country, or of many mother countries, but
rather as the interaction among diverse linguistic and cultural trajectories.

Consider that Cotton Mather spoke half a dozen languages and wrote in both Spanish and Latin. Or that the first short
story known to have been written by an African American (and reproduced here) was written in French. Not only a
literature of immigration and assimilation, American multilingual literature participates in the larger literary tradition
which too often marginalizes authors who complicate the fit of authorship, citizenship, and language.

Marc Shell is Professor of Comparative Literature and English and American Language and Literature at Harvard
University. WERNER SOLLORS is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro-American
Studies, also at Harvard University. Sollors other books include Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and
the Languages of American Literature.

Religion in America to 1865

Bryan Le Beau

General Interest / Pub. 5/1/2000 / 176 pages
ISBN: 0814751636 / $50.00 cloth
ISBN: 0814751633 / $17.50 paper

Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader
Edited by Jonathan Birnbaum, Clarence Taylor

History / Pub. 1/31/2000 / 704 pages
ISBN: 0814782159 / $85.00 cloth
ISBN: 0814782493 / $29.95 paper

January 27, 2002