“这是自由之地吗?”:大陆士兵与革命南方的奴隶制

IF 1.1 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
J. Ruddiman
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摘要:在独立战争后期,来自新英格兰和大西洋中部的大陆部队士兵穿越了陌生的南部各州。当他们在弗吉尼亚州和卡罗来纳州竞选时,这些局外人在他们的信件和日记中——以及后来的回忆录中——评论了奴隶和被奴役的人。现有的学术界错误地将局外人的这些战时观察与革命时代日益高涨的反奴隶制情绪联系起来。尽管一些北方士兵确实惊讶和不满地注意到了奴隶制的地区差异,但这些反应并不是一成不变的。他们选择记录的内容受到战争状态的有力影响;他们与白人和黑人居民的关系;以及对他们撰写这些意见的文本的期望。这些士兵关于奴隶制的著作随着他们与南方居民关系的发展而发生了变化。他们拥抱了他们的白人同胞,要么抹杀了与英国人一起寻求自由的弗吉尼亚黑人,要么对英国人在南卡罗来纳州武装的黑人大发雷霆。大陆士兵的作品并没有与第一波逐渐解放的浪潮清晰地联系在一起,而是强调了选择外来者,无论是对被奴役者的密集剥削持不可知论还是天真的态度,都证明了这是美国白人在革命中民族主义项目的一个组成部分。
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"Is This the Land of Liberty?": Continental Soldiers and Slavery in the Revolutionary South
Abstract:Late in the War for Independence, Continental soldiers from New England and mid-Atlantic regiments traveled through unfamiliar southern states. As they campaigned in Virginia and the Carolinas, these outsiders commented on enslavers and enslaved people in their letters and journals—and later in their memoirs. Existing scholarship has incorrectly connected these wartime observations by outsiders with the rising antislavery sentiments of the revolutionary era. Though some northern soldiers did note regional differences in slavery with surprise and disapproval, these reactions were not static. What they chose to record was powerfully shaped by the state of the war; their relationships with inhabitants, white and Black; and the expectations for the texts in which they penned these observations. These soldiers' writings about slavery changed as their relationships with southern inhabitants evolved. They embraced their white countrymen and either erased Black Virginians who sought freedom with the British or raged against Black men whom the British armed in South Carolina. Rather than cleanly connecting with the first wave of gradual emancipations, Continental soldiers' writings highlight how co-opting outsiders, agnostic or naive about intensive exploitation of enslaved people, proved a component of white Americans' nationalist project in the revolution.
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