Making a Slave State (eBook)

Political Development in Early South Carolina

Ryan A. Quintana (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
254 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469641072 (ISBN)

Infos

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 spaceits roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications. Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the postWar 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.

Autor

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

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 3 halftones, 2 maps, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Abram Blanding • African diaspora • Board of Public Works • Canals • Cartography • colonial security • Confiscation • Denmark Vesey • enslaved mobility • Forest Joe • George Blackburn • Governance • Henry Laurens • Infrastructural development • Johann Christian Senf • John Rutledge • maroonage • Political Development • Race • Revolutionary War and slavery • roads • Robert Mills • Runaway slaves • Santee-Cooper Canal • slave politics • Slavery • slaves’ everyday lives • South Carolina Police Associations • space • State • West-Central Africa
• ISBN-13: 9781469641072 / 9781469641072