In the name of the father : Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation

Author:

Furstenberg, François

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2007

Subject:

Washington, George, - 1732-1799 - Influence
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1815
Presidents - United States - Biography - History and criticism
Slavery - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century
Slavery - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century
Textbooks - United States - History - 18th century
Textbooks - United States - History - 19th century
Political culture - United States - History - 18th century
Political culture - United States - History - 19th century

ISBN:

9780143111931, 0143111930, 9781594200922, and 1594200920

Series:

Penguin history of American life

Description:

335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

Originally published: Penguin Press, 2006

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-319) and index

Contents:

Prologue : What the nation was up against -- The farewell -- The threats : geographical, political, international -- Introduction : Consent, slavery, and the problem of U.S. nationalism -- The apotheosis of George Washington -- Washington dies -- The nation's uncertain future -- Civic texts : creating a new future -- Partisanship -- Nationalism and religion -- Resignation, gratitude, and consent -- Washington's family : slavery and the nation -- George's death and Martha's predicament -- Slavery and the national family -- Washington as abolitionist -- Washington and paternalism -- Toward a consenting republic? -- Mason Locke Weems : spreading the American gospel -- Clergyman to evangelical bookseller : "true philanthropist and prudent speculator" -- Weems and antipartisanship -- Weem's Washington : a primer -- An "ad captandum" book -- Discriminating the "populi" -- Selling Marshall's biography : Weems and civic texts and Civic texts for slave and free : inventing the autonomous American -- Schoolbooks as civic texts : the hidden bestsellers of early American literature -- From the Columbian orator to the English reader : the making of the autonomous individual -- Slavery and reading : the specter of uncontrolled slaves -- Civic texts for slaves, self-control, and the inculcation of slave autonomy -- Slavery and the American individual -- Revolution, resistance, and autonomy -- Fit to be free -- The extended legacy of civic texts -- Epilogue : American nationalism, the living, and the dead -- Appendix 1 : A brief note on civic texts -- Appendix 2 : Publication trend of two canonical texts -- Appendix 3 : Publication information regarding the Columbian Orator -- Appendix 4 : Lindley Murray's English reader

Summary:

"A study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington and how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us still." -- From publisher's description

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

E310 .F97 2007

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