![]() ![]() I am also grateful to those individuals who commented on previously published portions of the manuscript. Thanks as well to Russ Damian and Nora Devlin for editorial assistance and to Michael Koplow for expert copyediting. Robert Devens saw promise in the project, and Tim Mennel graciously worked with me through its conclusion. I am also indebted to my editors at Chicago. As models of scholarly review-frank in their criticism, sincere in their praise-they pushed me to rethink the arguments and structure of the manuscript. First thanks go to the anonymous readers for the University of Chicago Press. This book has been long in the making and has had many influences, and it is a pleasure to express my gratitude to those who helped to shape its final form. Studying Slave Suicide: An Essay on Sources SIX / The Meaning of Suicide in Antislavery PoliticsĮPILOGUE / Suicide, Slavery, and Memory in American Culture THREE / Slave Suicide in the Context of Colonial North AmericaįOUR / The Power to Die or the Power of the State? The Legalities of Suicide in SlaveryįIVE / The Paradoxes of Suicide and Slavery in Print TWO / Suicide and Seasoning in British American Plantations ONE / Suicide and the Transatlantic Slave Trade INTRODUCTION / The Problem of Suicide in North American Slavery ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). ![]() Includes bibliographical references and index. The power to die : slavery and suicide in British North America / Terri L. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 Snyder is professor of American studies at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia. ![]() Slavery and Suicide in British North America 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. Snyder excavates the history of slave suicide, returning it to its central place in early American history. Faced with the reality of enslavement, countless Africans chose death instead. In America, they jumped into rivers or out of windows, or even ran into burning buildings. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. ![]()
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