Nash Race Revolution Nash Race Book Report

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Nash's work may have contributed to the wider reading our modern texts include, rather than the revisionist version which paraphrases down to 'the North had to accept slavery against its will because the South would have balked from the new republic.' Our selection of texts, particularly the primary material, consider this dynamic with more balance than in the century and a half prior to Nash, if his historiography is true. Nash applauds DuBois particularly as one of the first to controvert such mythologization (p. 72), and we have read some of his primary works. Nash supports and expands upon DuBois and the other readings; what Nash does contradict is the assertion that "We hold these truths self evident," and proves the authors of those words had their fingers crossed when they signed at the bottom of that page.

What I took most from Race and Revolution was a wider understanding of the degree to which even Northern white abolitionists became economically dependent on conscripted labor once they participated in the institution of slavery.

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The reductionist view that the South would suffer economic catastrophe as a result of emancipation, and thus slavery continued for a century after the American Revolution against Northern preferences, is the inherited wisdom I mostly encountered in public education. Nash's version that the North bore equal responsibility, and that this aggregate responsibility was caused by individuals who constituted and perpetuated abstract institutions forming the new nation, helps balance the Southern separatist explanation as perhaps history as revised by the victors (p. 3). This is a valuable perspective for all who would understand a national identity where slavery and then segregation comprise….....

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