Selling the American Body: The Construction of American Identity Through the Slave Trade
In this thesis I argue that the early conceptualization of American identity was achieved through the dehumanization of blacks at slave auctions, and that the subjugation of this group informed more areas of the collective, normalized, American identity than just race. I contend that blacks were dep...
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Scholar Commons
2016
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6356 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7552&context=etd |