The Power to Die
Download or Read eBook The Power to Die PDF written by Terri L. Snyder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Terri L. Snyder |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2015-08-28 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780226280561 |
| ISBN-13 | : 022628056X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Power to Die by : Terri L. Snyder
Book excerpt: Acts of suicide by enslaved people carried significant cultural, legal, and political implications in the emerging slave societies of British America and, later, the United States. This study features a wide range of evidence from ship logs and surgeon's journals, legal and legislative records, newspapers, periodicals, novels, and plays, abolitionist print and slave narratives in order to consider the intimate circumstances, cultural meanings, and political consequences of enslaved peoples' acts of self-destruction in the context of early American slavery.
