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Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819

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By (author): Gunther Peck

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. See more
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Will deliver when available. Publication date 10 Dec 2024

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Dec 2024
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781469675145

About Gunther Peck

Gunther Peck is associate professor of history at Duke University.

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