"To get quit of Negroes": George Washington and slavery

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The life of George Washington was inextricably entwined with slavery and as he grew up he took slavery for granted as every white person from Virginia did in the eighteenth century and as he became more immersed in the system. Washington claimed to recognize that slavery was a violation of the principles on which the Revolution was based and claimed as early as 1778 to want to get clear of or to get quit of Negroes.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Political activity, African Americans, Washington, George (American president)

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W.D. Howells and the crisis of overproduction

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W.D. Howells tended to equate his own weaknesses with the social tensions of late-nineteenth-century America. His letters imply that he is helpless, like America, in the grip of a process. It is argued that this is capitalist modernity and that Howells is reacting to the specific moment of capitalist development of the crisis of overproduction experienced by the US economy towards the end of the nineteenth century.

Business cycles, Howells, William Dean (American executive)

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"Who ain't a slave?": 'Moby Dick' and the ideology of free labor

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The novel 'Moby Dick' is discussed in relation to the free-labor doctrine in antebellum republicanism. Topics include wage slavery, Jacksonian republicanism, the desire for masterlessness, the motif of whiteness, and capitalism's circularity and instability.

History, Influence, Critical Essay, Moby-Dick (Novel), Melville, Herman, Republicanism, Labour, Labor, Political fiction

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