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050	0	4	_aE443 _b.P694 2015
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aSnyder, Terri L., _d1956- _e1
245	1	0	_aThe power to die : _bslavery and suicide in British North America / _cTerri L. Snyder.
260			_aChicago ; _aLondon : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aList of Figures -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tPrologue -- _tAnna's Leap -- _tIntroduction -- _tThe Problem of Suicide in North American Slavery -- _tOne -- _tSuicide and the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- _tTwo -- _tSuicide and Seasoning in British American Plantations -- _tThree -- _tSlave Suicide in the Context of Colonial North America -- _tFour -- _tThe Power to Die or the Power of the State? The Legalities of Suicide in Slavery -- _tFive -- _tThe Paradoxes of Suicide and Slavery in Print -- _tSix -- _tThe Meaning of Suicide in Antislavery Politics -- _tEpilogue -- _tSuicide, Slavery, and Memory in American Culture -- _tStudying Slave Suicide: An Essay on Sources -- _tAbbreviations -- _tNotes -- _tSelect Bibliography of Primary Sources -- _tIndex.
520	0		_aThe history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they jumped into rivers or out of windows, or even ran into burning buildings. Faced with the reality of enslavement, countless Africans chose death instead. In The Power to Die, Terri L. Snyder excavates the history of slave suicide, returning it to its central place in early American history. How did people-traders, plantation owners, and, most importantly, enslaved men and women themselves-view and understand these deaths, and how did they affect understandings of the institution of slavery then and now? Snyder draws on ships' logs, surgeons' journals, judicial and legislative records, newspaper accounts, abolitionist propaganda and slave narratives, and many other sources to build a grim picture of slavery's toll and detail the ways in which suicide exposed the contradictions of slavery, serving as a powerful indictment that resonated throughout the Anglo-Atlantic world and continues to speak to historians today.
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650		0	_aEnslaved persons _xSuicidal behavior _zNorth America.
650		0	_aSlavery _zNorth America _xHistory.
650		0	_aSuicide _zUnited States _xHistory.
650	1	2	_aEnslaved Persons _xhistory
650	1	2	_aSuicide _xhistory
650	2	2	_aEnslavement _xhistory
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell