Perplexing Patriarchies: Fatherhood Among Black Opponents and White Defenders of Slavery Contributor(s): Islam, Pierre (Author) |
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ISBN: 1622736664 ISBN-13: 9781622736669 Publisher: Vernon Press OUR PRICE: $57.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - History | African American - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Series: American History |
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6" W x 9" (0.58 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History |
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Publisher Description: Perplexing Patriarchies examines the rhetorical usage (and lived experience) of fatherhood among three African American abolitionists and three of their white proslavery opponents in the United States during the nineteenth century. Both the prominent abolitionists (Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, and Henry Garnet), as well as the prominent proslavery advocates (Henry Hammond, George Fitzhugh, and Richard Dabney), appealed to the popular image of the father, husband, and head of household in order to attack or justify slavery. |
Contributor Bio(s): Islam, Pierre: - Pierre Islam received his B.A. in History from the Johns Hopkins University in 2009 and his Ph.D. in American History from Yale University in May 2018. Having studied African American intellectual history since the early days of his undergraduate career, he has spent the last several years immersed in the archives of the Library of Congress, the University of Virginia, and Duke University studying primary source material in order to ascertain the contours of black intellectual and political life in the nineteenth century. |