Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• BROWN, VINCENT

Titel

Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery

Ist Teil von

• The American historical review, 2009-12, Vol.114 (5), p.1231-1249

Ort / Verlag

England: The University of Chicago Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Brown explains why scholars of slavery have too often posited a metaphorical "social death" as the basic condition of slavery. He stresses that the concept of social death is ultimately out of place in the political history of slavery. He argues that more attention should be paid to the outlooks and maneuvers of the enslaved as an important part of the history of slavery. Furthermore, he concludes that scholars would do better to keep in view the struggle against alienation--against the state of "social death"-- rather than the supposed fact of alienation itself.