| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Buying Oroonoko in Salem: sentimentality, spectacle, slavery, and the Salem Social Library -- "Whatever is, is right": the Redwood Library and the reception of Pope's poetry in colonial Rhode Island -- They were prodigals and enslavers: patriarchy and the reading of Robinson Crusoe at the New York Society Library -- Slaves as securitized assets: Chrysal, or, the Adventures of a Guinea, paper money, and the Charleston Library Society -- "See Benezet's account of Africa throughout": the genres of Equiano's Interesting Narratvie and the Library Company of Philadelphia -- Conclusion: philanthropy recommended: slavery, the origins of the "charitable industrial complex," and the public sphere |
| Summary |
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce--the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 29, 2020) |
| Subject |
Book industries and trade -- History
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Slave trade -- America -- History
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Book industries and trade -- United States -- History
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Public libraries -- United States -- Finance -- History
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Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History
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English literature -- Social aspects -- United States
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Slavery -- Economic aspects
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Public libraries -- Finance
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English literature -- Social aspects
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Book industries and trade
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Slave trade
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United States
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America
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192573407 |
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0192573403 |
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9780191873621 |
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0191873624 |
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