Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States

Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States
ISBN-10
0812253396
ISBN-13
9780812253399
Category
History
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2021-10-22
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Author
Erin Austin Dwyer

Description

Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose how emotions such as love, terror, happiness, and trust functioned as social and economic capital for slaveholders and enslaved people alike.

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