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Thoughts of the Future (Thoughts of Liberia, Emancipation)

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Description: American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life
The fictions that whites built about the black people in their midst were very different from those they constructed about one another. In the eyes of almost all the dominant citizens who put themselves at the center of the body politic, scheming Yankee farmers and vaguely disreputable Westerners might be of dubious commercial malleability or low social standing, but they were indisputably in the competitive race that linked citizens across the electorate. African-Americans, however, were not. …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.100-136
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00011.007

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