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Melish, Joanne Pope. "Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and the Cultural Construction of 'Race' in New England, 1780-1860," American Civilization Program, Brown University, May 1996.
Drawing upon archival and literary sources, this dissertation explores the embodiment of “race” in the course of the gradual emancipation of New England slaves after 1780. It argues that gradual emancipation enabled whites to transfer language and practices shaped in the context of slavery to their relations with free people of color, thus naturalizing notions of black servility and white entitlement to citizenship. To enact the promise of eventual black absence implicit in Revolutionary antislavery rhetoric, whites enacted strategies to eliminate blacks and efface their history. By 1860, New England history had been revisioned as a triumphant narrative of free, white labor.
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