A dreadful deceit the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America

Jones, Jacqueline 1948- (author.).

Summary: In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color of their skin and the economic injustices they battled?yet the former is what defines them in America's consciousness. In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives.

Record details

ISBN: 9780465069804 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0465069800 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (401 p.)
Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]

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Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction; 1. Antonio: A Killing in Early Colonial Maryland; 2. Boston King: Self-Interested Patriotism in Revolutionary-Era South Carolina; 3. Elleanor Eldridge: ""Complexional Hindrance"" in Antebellum Rhode Island; 4. Richard W. White: ""Racial"" Politics in Post-Civil War Savannah; 5. William H. HOltzclaw: The ""Black Man's Burden"" in the Heart of Mississippi; 6. Simon P. Owens: A Detroit Wildcatter at the Point of Production; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Notes; Index