Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris

by John T Matthews and John T. Matthews

Book Overview

For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation's enlightenment ideals and republican ideology. Ideals of liberty, democracy, and individualism could not be separated from a history of forcible coercion, oligarchic power, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082036259X
• ISBN13: 9780820362595
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"