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Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina - Couverture souple

Quintana, Ryan A.

 
9781469642222: Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1469642220 ISBN 13 : 9781469642222
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018

Synopsis

How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space--its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications. Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the post-War of 1812 internal improvements boom, Quintana highlights the surprising ways enslaved men and women sat at the center of South Carolina's earliest political development, materially producing the state's infrastructure and early governing practices, while also challenging and reshaping both through their day-to-day movements, from the mundane to the rebellious. Focusing on slaves' lives and labors, Quintana illuminates how black South Carolinians not only created the early state but also established their own extralegal economic sites, social and cultural havens, and independent communities along South Carolina's roads, rivers, and canals.

Combining social history, the study of American politics, and critical geography, Quintana reframes our ideas of early American political development, illuminates the material production of space, and reveals the central role of slaves' daily movements (for their owners and themselves) to the development of the modern state.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ryan A. Quintana is associate professor of history at Wellesley College.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469642220
ISBN 13 
9781469642222
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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