Burning Down the House: Slavery and Arson in America
Immerwahr examines methods and evidence from environmental, urban, and intellectual history that attest to the connection between slavery and arson. By the 1830s, as slavery concentrated in the South, many saw fire as a form of sectional warfare. Arson amplified North-South divisions by raising the...
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| Published in | The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Vol. 110; no. 3; pp. 449 - 473 |
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| Abstract | Immerwahr examines methods and evidence from environmental, urban, and intellectual history that attest to the connection between slavery and arson. By the 1830s, as slavery concentrated in the South, many saw fire as a form of sectional warfare. Arson amplified North-South divisions by raising the prospect that northern actions might kindle southern fires, and this fear became central to the brewing crisis. Enslavers identified abolition with incendiarism, and abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and John Brown embraced that identification. |
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