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'Death to the Masters!': the role of slave revolt in the fiction of Robert E. Howard

dc.contributor.authorGarstad, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-03
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-31T01:16:14Z
dc.date.available2022-05-31T01:16:14Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThe fantasy fiction of Robert E. Howard reveals a number of largely unspoken assumptions about the historical role of slavery and its consequences in Jim Crow Texas. Howard traced a trajectory that led from slavery through miscegenation and servile uprising to the destruction of civilisation. The descriptions of slave revolts in his fiction depends upon a paranoid rhetoric which developed in the South before and after Emancipation to respond to the fact of servile insurrection, outlining the consistent features of such revolts and explaining their causes and historical implications. As documents offering insight into the segregationist mind, Howard's stories are invaluable.
dc.description.urihttps://library.macewan.ca/full-record/31h/50529546
dc.identifier.citationGarstad, Benjamin. “‘Death to the Masters!’: the role of slave revolt in the fiction of Robert E. Howard.” Slavery & Abolition 31 (2010) 233-256.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/01440391003711099
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/2011
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectRobert E. Howard
dc.subjectslavery
dc.subjectJim Crow
dc.subjectslave revolt
dc.subjectTexas Revolution
dc.subjectThomas Jefferson
dc.subjectTocqueville
dc.subjectJohn Brown
dc.subjectcritic of slavery
dc.subjectConan story
dc.title'Death to the Masters!': the role of slave revolt in the fiction of Robert E. Howarden
dc.typeArticle

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