In the name of the father : Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation / François Furstenberg.
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- 0143111930 (pbk.) :
- 9780143111931 (pbk.) :
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Influence
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Textbooks -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Textbooks -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- E310 .F97 2007
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Nash Library General Stacks | E310.F97 2007 | 1 | Available | 33710001060362 |
Originally published: Penguin Press, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-319) and index.
What the nation was up against -- The farewell -- The threats: geographical, political, international -- Consent, slavery, and the problem of U.S. nationalism -- 1. The apotheosis of George Washington -- Washington dies -- The nation's uncertain future -- Civic texts: creating a new future -- Partisanship -- Nationalism and religion -- Resignation, gratitude, and consent -- 2. Washington's family: slavery and the nation -- George's death and Martha's predicament -- Slavery and the national family -- Washington as abolitionist -- Washington and paternalism -- Toward a consenting republic? -- 3. Mason Locke Weems: spreading the American gospel -- Clergyman to evangelical bookseller: "true philanthropist and prudent speculator" -- Weems and antipartisanship -- Weem's Washington: a primer -- An "ad captandum" book -- Discriminating the "populi" -- Selling Marshall's biography: Weems and civic texts -- 4. Civic texts for slave and free: inventing the autonomous American -- Schoolbooks ad civic texts: the hidden bestsellers of early American literature -- From the Columbian orator to the English reader: the making of the autonomous individual -- Slavery and reading: the specter of uncontrolled slaves -- Civic texts for slaves, self-control, and the inculcation of slave autonomy -- 5. Slavery and the American individual -- Revolution, resistance, and autonomy -- Fit to be free -- The extended legacy of civic texts.