The Power to Die

Description:

Acts of suicide by enslaved people carried significant cultural, legal, and political implications in the emerging slave societies of British America and, later, the United States. This study features a wide range of evidence from ship logs and surgeon's journals, legal and legislative records, newspapers, periodicals, novels, and plays, abolitionist print and slave narratives in order to consider the intimate circumstances, cultural meanings, and political consequences of enslaved peoples' acts of self-destruction in the context of early American slavery.

subjects: Suicidal behavior,  Suicide,  Slavery,  Slaves,  History,  Enslaved Persons,  Enslavement,  Esclaves,  Comportement suicidaire,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Public Policy,  Cultural Policy,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Anthropology,  Cultural,  Popular Culture,  Political aspects of Suicide,  Resistance to Government,  Amérique du Nord -- Histoire,  British imperialism & british empire - history,  Antislavery movements,  Power over Life and death

Places: North America,  United States