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Race Traffic
Gunther Peck
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Omohundro Institute and UNC Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Fantasies of white slavery and the narratives of victimhood they spawn form the foundation of racist ideology. They also obscure the lived experience of trafficked servants and sailors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Gunther Peck moves deftly between the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds to discover where and when people with light skin color came to see themselves as white. Separating fact from fiction, and paying close attention to the ideological work each performs, Peck shows how laboring women and men leveraged their newfound whiteness to secure economic opportunity and political power.
Peck argues that whiteness emerged not as a claim of racial superiority but as a byproduct of wide-ranging and rancorous public debate over trafficking and enslavement. Even as whiteness became a legal category that signaled privilege, trafficking and race remained tightly interwoven. Those advocating for the value of whiteness invoked emotionally freighted victimhood, claiming that so-called white slavery was a crime whose costs far exceeded those associated with the enslavement of African peoples across the Americas. Peck helps us understand the chilling history that produced the racist ideology that still poisons our politics in the present day.
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John Hughson, Aphra Behn, Kidnapping, Olaudah Equiano, Racial slavery, Robert Adams, The American Revolution, The War of 1812, James Annesley, The Seven Years War, Sir Sydney Smith, Antislavery, Philis Wheatley, Daniel Defoe, Humanitarian intervention, Robert Wedderburn, Christian Slavery, Whiteness, Thomas Lurting, Barbary Coast Pirates, Convict Transportation, Mediterranean slavery, Bacon’s Rebellion, John Jewitt, Thomas Troughton, Servant Trade, the humanitarian sensibility, White victimhood, Daniel Horsmanden, Modern Slavery, Servant-Slave Rebellions, Oroonoko, racial capitalism, Antitrafficking, Robert Barker, Peter Williamson, Impressment, Abolitionism, White Slavery, The African Slave Trade, The New York Servant-Slave Conspiracy of 1741