Benjamin N. Lawrance
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300198454
- eISBN:
- 9780300210439
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300198454.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Nineteenth-century slave traders recognized children as effective tools with which to avoid new slave trading restrictions and prohibitions. This chapter explores the contextual perimeters of ...
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Nineteenth-century slave traders recognized children as effective tools with which to avoid new slave trading restrictions and prohibitions. This chapter explores the contextual perimeters of children and child slaves in the nineteenth century against broader scholarly debates about childhood. Reuniting the orphans of La Amistad as an imagined slave ship family somehow provides a pattern for understanding the outline of the nineteenth-century African child slave experience. From the enslavement in their original villages, journey to the coastal prisons or barracoons, to the deep and dark activities of a slave ship, the chapter examines the different aspects of child enslavement within the context of the 1830s–40s illegal slave trade, along with the relationship between child enslavement and the expansion of prohibitions on slave trading.Less
Nineteenth-century slave traders recognized children as effective tools with which to avoid new slave trading restrictions and prohibitions. This chapter explores the contextual perimeters of children and child slaves in the nineteenth century against broader scholarly debates about childhood. Reuniting the orphans of La Amistad as an imagined slave ship family somehow provides a pattern for understanding the outline of the nineteenth-century African child slave experience. From the enslavement in their original villages, journey to the coastal prisons or barracoons, to the deep and dark activities of a slave ship, the chapter examines the different aspects of child enslavement within the context of the 1830s–40s illegal slave trade, along with the relationship between child enslavement and the expansion of prohibitions on slave trading.
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231159241
- eISBN:
- 9780231528191
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231159241.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This book confronts the coldest period of the Cold War—the moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower ...
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This book confronts the coldest period of the Cold War—the moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower administration's policy toward China. It convincingly portrays Dwight D. Eisenhower's private belief that close relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) were inevitable and that careful consideration of the PRC should constitute a critical part of American diplomacy. The book argues that the Eisenhower administration's hostile rhetoric and tough actions toward China obscure the president's actual views. Behind the scenes, Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, pursued a more nuanced approach, one better suited to China's specific challenges and the stabilization of the global community. It explores the contradictions between Eisenhower and his advisors' public and private positions. The most powerful chapter centers on Eisenhower's recognition that rigid trade prohibitions would undermine the global postwar economic recovery and push China into a closer relationship with the Soviet Union. Ultimately, the book finds that Eisenhower's strategic thinking on Europe and his fear of toxic, anticommunist domestic politics constrained his leadership, making a fundamental shift in U.S. policy toward China difficult if not impossible. Consequently, the president was unable to engage Congress and the public effectively on China, ultimately failing to realize his own high standards as a leader.Less
This book confronts the coldest period of the Cold War—the moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower administration's policy toward China. It convincingly portrays Dwight D. Eisenhower's private belief that close relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) were inevitable and that careful consideration of the PRC should constitute a critical part of American diplomacy. The book argues that the Eisenhower administration's hostile rhetoric and tough actions toward China obscure the president's actual views. Behind the scenes, Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, pursued a more nuanced approach, one better suited to China's specific challenges and the stabilization of the global community. It explores the contradictions between Eisenhower and his advisors' public and private positions. The most powerful chapter centers on Eisenhower's recognition that rigid trade prohibitions would undermine the global postwar economic recovery and push China into a closer relationship with the Soviet Union. Ultimately, the book finds that Eisenhower's strategic thinking on Europe and his fear of toxic, anticommunist domestic politics constrained his leadership, making a fundamental shift in U.S. policy toward China difficult if not impossible. Consequently, the president was unable to engage Congress and the public effectively on China, ultimately failing to realize his own high standards as a leader.
