The pedestal and the veil

Journal of the Early Republic

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 299-308

  Johnson, Walter ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. See, especially, Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: Tlie Making of the political thought, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston, 1995); Black Radical Tradition (London, 1983). For the idea of histories "unthinkable" in the terms of western political thought, see Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston, 1995)
2. and Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Tlwnght and Historical Difference (Princeton, 2000)
3. James Oakes, "The Peculiar Fate of the Bourgeois Critique of Slaver)'," in Winthrop D. Jordan and Annette Gordon-Reed, eds., Slavery and the American South (Jackson, MS, 2003), 29-33
4. Kark Marx, Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production (3 vols., New York, 1967), 1: 43-87. For a reading of Capital that outlines a helpful (if doxological) set of interpretations, see David Harvey, The Limits to Capital (1982; rep., London, 1999)
5. See Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Pmver: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York, 1985)
6. See Edwin J. Perkins, Financing Anglo-American Trade: The House of Brmvn, 1800-1880 (Cambridge, MA, 1975)
7. See Frank Lawrence Owsley, King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of America the Confederate States of America (Chicago, 1959), 134-53
8. Thomas Hietala, Manifest Design: Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America (Ithaca, 1985), 55-94
9. The substitution of linen for cotton seems even more remarkable in liglit of the facts that Marx was subsisting during the period he wrote Capital largely on loans from Engels, who was working as the manager of a cotton mill partly owned by his family. Peter Stallybrass, Marx's Coat, in Patricia Spyer, ed, Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces London, 1998, 190-94 of the facts that Marx was subsisting during the period he wrote Capital largely on loans from Engels, who was working as the manager of a cotton mill partly owned by his family. See Peter Stallybrass, "Marx's Coat," in Patricia Spyer, ed., Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces (London, 1998), 190-94
10. Marx, Capital, 1: 667-712 (quotation at 699)
11. See Eugene D. Genovese, The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the the Slave South Economy and Society of the Slave South (New York, 1965)
12. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese, The Fruits of Merchant Rise and Expansion of Capitalism Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism (New York, 1983)
13. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Chapel Hill, 1988). The temporal unevenness of the succession story is generally smoothed by the invocation of the category of contradiction: Mark V. Tushnet, The American Law of Slavery: Considerations of Humanity and Interest (Princeton, 1981). Women of the Old South (Chapel Hill, 1988). The temporal unevenness of the succession story is generally smoothed by the invocation of the category of "contradiction": see Mark V. Tushnet, The American Law of Slavery: Considerations of Humanity and Interest (Princeton, 1981)
14. Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household, 53-58
15. For a reading of Marx that dovetails with my reading of the political economy of the Atlantic world, David Kazanjian, The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America Minneapolis, 2003, 14-24 economy of the Atlantic world, see David Kazanjian, The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (Minneapolis, 2003), 14-24
16. See also Stuart Hall, "Race, Articulation, and Societies .Structured in Dominance," in Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg, eds., Race Critical Theories: Text and Context (Oxford, UK, 2002), 38-68
17. For the emphasis on time, space, and "calculation," see David Space, Time, and the City, in his The Urban Experience (Baltimore, 1989), 165-99. Harvey, "Money, Space, Time, and the City," in his The Urban Experience (Baltimore, 1989), 165-99
18. For money and credit, see Harold Woodman, King Cotton and His Retainers: the South, 1800-1925 Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925 (Lexington, KY, 1968), 3-198
19. and Perkins, Financing Anglo-American. For slaves, labor, discipline, and cotton, Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the Mississippi River Valley (forthcoming). For the increasing identification of the English working class with cotton clothing, Stallybrass, Marx's Coat, 193-94. cotton, see Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the Mississippi River Valley (forthcoming). For the increasing identification of the English working class with cotton clothing, see Stallybrass, "Marx's Coat," 193-94
20. Marx, Capital, 1: 711. Marx also used the idea of "commercial interstate slave trade in the United States to the importation of Irish workers to England: Mutato nomine de te fabula narratnr, he wrote: with the name changed, the story applies to you 254 slavery" when he compared the interstate slave trade in the United States to the importation of Irish workers to England: "Mutato nomine de te fabula narratnr," he wrote: "with the name changed, the story applies to you" (254)
21. See David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Ithaca, 1975)
22. David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London, 1991)
23. and Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and of Slave Emancipation the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge, UK, 1998)
24. See Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill, 1944)
25. Mintz, Sweetness and Power, and Joseph Miller, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830 (Madison, 1988)
26. See Daniel T. Rodgers, The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (Chicago, 1978)
27. Thomas C. Holt, The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in 1832-1938 Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Baltimore, 1992)
28. Stanley, From Bondage to Contract; Saidiya V. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (New York, 1997); Kazanjian, The Colonizing Trick, 35-138. Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (New York, 1997); Kazanjian, The Colonizing Trick, 35-138
29. Marx, Capital, 1:711. In the original: "Tantae molis erat. ⋯"