DOC The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City (V. Ethel Willis White Books) by Lucas N. N. Burke; Judson L. Jeffries in History

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In this groundbreaking work; Michael Tadman establishes that all levels of white society in the antebellum South were deeply involved in a massive interregional trade in slaves. Using countless previously untapped manuscript sources; he documents black resilience in the face of the pervasive indifference of slaveholders toward slaves and their families. This new paperback edition of Speculators and Slaves offers a substantial new Introduction that advances a major thesis of master-slave relationships. By exploring the gulf between the slaveholders’ self-image as benevolent paternalists and their actual behavior; Tadman critiques the theories of close accommodation and paternalistic hegemony that are currently influential.