{"product_id":"the-punished-self-surviving-slavery-in-the-colonial-south","title":"The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South (Hardcover, 240 pages) – Cornell University Press, 2001. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on Blacks' sense of self. Alex Bontemps focuses on slavery's effects on the slaves' framework of self-awareness and understanding. Whites wanted Blacks to act out the role \"Negro\" and Blacks faced a basic dilemma of identity: how to retain an individualized sense of self under the incredible pressure to be Negro? Bontemps addresses this dynamic in The Punished Self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first part of The Punished Self reveals how patterns of objectification were reinforced by written and visual representations of enslavement. The second examines how captive Africans were forced to accept a new identity and the expectations and behavioral requirements it symbolized. Part 3 defines and illustrates the tensions inherent in slaves' being Negro in order to survive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBontemps offers fresh interpretations of runaway slave ads and portraits. Such views of black people expressing themselves are missing entirely from other historical sources. This book's revelations include many such original examples of the survival of the individual in the face of enslavement.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n        About the Author   \u003cp\u003eAlex Bontemps is Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College.\u003c\/p\u003e      ","brand":"Alex Bontemps","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46070999285994,"sku":"9780801435218","price":42.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/61vibylXgtL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781278002","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/the-punished-self-surviving-slavery-in-the-colonial-south","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}