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John Wood Sweet

University of North Carolina

http://history.unc.edu/faculty/sweet.html

Within the general field of Early American history, John Wood Sweet's research focuses on the dynamics of colonialism and on the interplay of religious cultures. In Bodies Politic he explores the encounters of Indians, Africans, and Europeans in New England and argues that the racial legacy of colonialism shaped the emergence of the American North as well as the South. [more]

Memory of the Slave Trade in New England

Beverly Morgan-Welch

April 23, 2004

02:12:53

A panel discusses the way New England's pride in its abolitionist heritage has obscured the presence of slavery in the region for over 200 years, from its first founding to the institution's ultimate demise through schemes of gradual emancipation.

Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830

Author: John Wood Sweet

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (2006)

Binding: Paperback, 504 pages