Race Traffic
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Race Traffic

Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Race Traffic

Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819

About this book

Fantasies of white slavery and the narratives of victimhood they spawn form the foundation of racist ideology. They also obscure the lived experience of trafficked servants and sailors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Gunther Peck moves deftly between the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds to discover where and when people with light skin color came to see themselves as white. Separating fact from fiction, and paying close attention to the ideological work each performs, Peck shows how laboring women and men leveraged their newfound whiteness to secure economic opportunity and political power.

Peck argues that whiteness emerged not as a claim of racial superiority but as a byproduct of wide-ranging and rancorous public debate over trafficking and enslavement. Even as whiteness became a legal category that signaled privilege, trafficking and race remained tightly interwoven. Those advocating for the value of whiteness invoked emotionally freighted victimhood, claiming that so-called white slavery was a crime whose costs far exceeded those associated with the enslavement of African peoples across the Americas. Peck helps us understand the chilling history that produced the racist ideology that still poisons our politics in the present day.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Introduction: Race Traffic, Past and Present
  9. Chapter One: The Origins of Race Traffic
  10. Chapter Two: Ransom Traffic and Antislavery in the Mediterranean
  11. Chapter Three: Novel Ways of Seeing Race
  12. Chapter Four: Atlantic Slave-Servant Conspiracies
  13. Chapter Five: Nationalizing Emancipation in the Mediterranean
  14. Chapter Six: War, Traffic, and Race across the British Empire
  15. Chapter Seven: Trafficking, Freedom, and Race in the Age of Revolution
  16. Chapter Eight: Antislavery Nationalism and Race
  17. Conclusion: The Radical Challenge to Race Traffic
  18. Appendix A: The Colonial State Papers
  19. Appendix B: Early English Books Online
  20. Appendix C: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  21. Appendix D: Daniel Horsemanden’s Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy (1744)
  22. Index