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Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves de Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves

Autor Marie Jenkins Schwartz
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 apr 2017

Prezentată sub forma unei monografii istorice riguroase, Ties That Bound explorează o dimensiune adesea ignorată a vieții domestice din perioada de formare a Statelor Unite: relația directă și intimă dintre primele doamne ale națiunii și persoanele aflate în sclavie în gospodăriile lor. Apreciem modul în care Marie Jenkins Schwartz deconstruiește mitul gospodăriei idilice, arătând că în spatele unor figuri iconice precum Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson sau Dolley Madison se afla o rețea complexă de muncă forțată care susținea statutul social al elitei din Virginia.

Structura volumului este organizată cronologic și biografic, fiind împărțită în trei secțiuni majore dedicate familiilor Washington, Jefferson și Madison. Notăm cu interes cum cuprinsul urmărește evoluția acestor femei de la statutul de tinere soții la cel de prime doamne, subliniind prezența constantă a sclavilor în spațiile cele mai private, de la Mount Vernon până la Casa Albă. Comparabil cu First Ladies of the Republic de Jeanne E. Abrams în ceea ce privește rigoarea documentării figurilor feminine fondatoare, volumul de față se distinge printr-o perspectivă critică necesară, refuzând să trateze sclavia ca pe un element periferic.

Această lucrare continuă cercetările autoarei din Born in Bondage – Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South, extinzând analiza de la experiența copiilor sclavi la dinamica de putere dintre stăpâne și servitorii lor. Spre deosebire de lucrări precum Patriot Hearts, care pot tinde spre o viziune mai romanțată, Ties That Bound utilizează date factuale pentru a evidenția tensiunile, negocierile și realitățile dure ale unui sistem care definea identitatea de gen și clasă în America timpurie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226147550
ISBN-10: 022614755X
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 12 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie socială care doresc să înțeleagă complexitatea perioadei de formare a SUA dincolo de miturile politice. Veți descoperi cum sclavia nu a fost doar o instituție economică, ci una care a modelat structura intimității și a vieții cotidiene în cele mai înalte cercuri ale puterii. Este o lectură esențială pentru a vedea cum statutul primelor doamne era indisolubil legat de munca celor nevăzuți.

Despre autor

Marie Jenkins Schwartz este profesor asociat de istorie la University of Rhode Island, specializată în istoria sclaviei și a Sudului american. Expertiza sa în documentarea vieților celor oprimați este reflectată în lucrările sale anterioare, în special în Born in Bondage – Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South, unde a explorat condiția copiilor născuți în sclavie. În Ties That Bound, Schwartz își folosește rigoarea academică pentru a aduce la lumină intersecția dintre gen, rasă și putere în gospodăriile părinților fondatori ai Americii, oferind o perspectivă nuanțată asupra istoriei regionale și naționale.

Descriere scurtă

Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier to the nation’s capital. American icons like Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, and Dolley Madison were all slaveholders. And as Marie Jenkins Schwartz uncovers in Ties That Bound, these women, as the day-to-day managers of their households, dealt with the realities of a slaveholding culture directly and continually, even in the most intimate of spaces.

Unlike other histories that treat the stories of the First Ladies’ slaves as separate from the lives of their mistresses, Ties That Bound closely examines the relationships that developed between the First Ladies and their slaves. For elite women and their families, slaves were more than an agricultural workforce; slavery was an entire domestic way of life that reflected and reinforced their status. In many cases slaves were more constant companions to the white women of the household than were their husbands and sons, who often traveled or were at war. By looking closely at the complicated intimacy these women shared, Schwartz is able to reveal how they negotiated their roles, illuminating much about the lives of slaves themselves, as well as class, race, and gender in early America.

By detailing the prevalence and prominence of slaves in the daily lives of women who helped shape the country, Schwartz makes it clear that it is impossible to honestly tell the stories of these women while ignoring their slaves.  She asks us to consider anew the embedded power of slavery in the very earliest conception of American politics, society, and everyday domestic routines.
 

Notă biografică

Marie Jenkins Schwartz is professor emeritus of history at the University of Rhode Island. She is also the author of Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South and Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South.
 

Cuprins

Author’s Note
Introduction     Seen and Unseen

Part 1          Washington

1                      The Widow Washington
2                      Martha Dandridge
3                      Married Lady
4                      Mistress of Mount Vernon
5                      Revolutionary War
6                      First Lady
7                      Slaves in the President’s House
8                      Home Again

Part 2          Jefferson

9                      Martha Wayles
10                    Mistress of Monticello I
11                    War in Virginia
12                    Birth and Death at Monticello
13                    Patsy Jefferson and Sally Hemings
14                    First Lady
15                    Mistress of Monticello II
16                    The Hemingses
17                    Death of Thomas Jefferson

Part 3          Madison

18                    Dolley Payne
19                    Mrs. Madison
20                    First Lady
21                    Mistress of Montpelier
22                    Decline of Montpelier
23                    The Widow Madison
24                    Sale of Montpelier
25                    In Washington
26                    Death of Dolley Madison
Epilogue          Inside and Outside
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Recenzii

“Absorbing. . . . The story of the Founders and slavery is one of the most vexed in American history, analyzed and debated generation after generation. Ties That Bound doesn't unravel the moral or sociological underpinnings and consequences of those tangled connections, but it does contribute a fresh and valuable dimension to that long argument with its fine-grained portraits of domestic life in the South in the early republic.”

“An inventive, integrated portrait of black and white. . . . Her fierce research is distilled into engaging prose. . . . Secrets and lies ensnared these braided lives, and Ties That Bound offers vivid insight into these entangled stories.”

“Both general readers and scholars will benefit by having their knowledge rather uncomfortably enhanced by this substantive study. Highly recommended.”

“Ties That Bound provides enlightening depictions of both the savvy that aristocratic women utilized to achieve as much power as their husbands did (even though it was a different kind of power), as well as the disheartening distractions from self-empowerment that these women had to negotiate. . .Schwartz’s expertise clearly shines when she is analyzing the various ways that both black female slaves and white female aristocrats negotiated the man’s world of early nineteenth-century America. . . .A fine and worthy contribution to intersectional studies.”

“Ties That Bound's most important contribution is refocusing our attention on First Ladies as slaveholders and revealing how slaveholding influenced their roles. . . .This book deserves a wide readership.”

“In Ties That Bound, Schwartz provides a necessary corrective to the popular and scholarly literature on the First Ladies, accounts that tend to focus on their roles as fashionable hostesses. In this fascinating study, Schwartz shows how deeply slavery was embedded in the Founders’ households and explores in exquisite detail the fraught relationships between these Patriot mistresses and the men and women and adults and children whose labor they commanded.  A lively and insightful book that complements—and at times contradicts—works glorifying the Founding Fathers and their wives and (white) daughters.”

"Fascinating. . . . A thought-provoking explication of the thorny personal relationships between slaveholding and enslaved women, and Schwartz succeeds in depicting these relationships 'as a lived experience'."

"Many books have been written about America’s First Ladies over the last several decades, but for the most part they have addressed only tangentially the issue of slavery. In Ties that Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves, historian Marie Jenkins Schwartz
corrects that significant omission. . . . Schwartz is a fluid writer who provides rich details about the daily lives of this
group of Founding First Ladies and the enslaved people who made their privileged lifestyles possible and with whom they interacted on a daily basis. . . . The book is a solid synthesis that enlarges our understanding of gender, class, race, and the institution of slavery in the early republic."