Making a Slave State

Political Development in Early South Carolina

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book Making a Slave State by Ryan A. Quintana, The University of North Carolina Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Ryan A. Quintana ISBN: 9781469641072
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Publication: March 19, 2018
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English
Author: Ryan A. Quintana
ISBN: 9781469641072
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication: March 19, 2018
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Language: English

How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications. Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the post–War of 1812 internal improvements boom, Quintana highlights the surprising ways enslaved men and women sat at the center of South Carolina's earliest political development, materially producing the state's infrastructure and early governing practices, while also challenging and reshaping both through their day-to-day movements, from the mundane to the rebellious. Focusing on slaves' lives and labors, Quintana illuminates how black South Carolinians not only created the early state but also established their own extralegal economic sites, social and cultural havens, and independent communities along South Carolina's roads, rivers, and canals.

Combining social history, the study of American politics, and critical geography, Quintana reframes our ideas of early American political development, illuminates the material production of space, and reveals the central role of slaves' daily movements (for their owners and themselves) to the development of the modern state.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications. Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the post–War of 1812 internal improvements boom, Quintana highlights the surprising ways enslaved men and women sat at the center of South Carolina's earliest political development, materially producing the state's infrastructure and early governing practices, while also challenging and reshaping both through their day-to-day movements, from the mundane to the rebellious. Focusing on slaves' lives and labors, Quintana illuminates how black South Carolinians not only created the early state but also established their own extralegal economic sites, social and cultural havens, and independent communities along South Carolina's roads, rivers, and canals.

Combining social history, the study of American politics, and critical geography, Quintana reframes our ideas of early American political development, illuminates the material production of space, and reveals the central role of slaves' daily movements (for their owners and themselves) to the development of the modern state.

More books from The University of North Carolina Press

Cover of the book Turing's Man by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book Race, Poverty, and American Cities by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book Israel and the Western Powers, 1952-1960 by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book The Virgin Vote by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book The Product of Our Souls by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book The Color of the Land by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book American Bards by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book The Mortal Wounding of Stonewall Jackson by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book Beyond the Prison Gates by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book Women and Law in Classical Greece by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book The Antietam Campaign by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book The Dying City by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book Medicalizing Blackness by Ryan A. Quintana
Cover of the book To Be a Worker by Ryan A. Quintana
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy