Feeling Oceanic: Racial Identity and Postbellum Drift

<p><strong>Abstract</strong>: In this essay we draw a historiographical line from J. M. W. Turner’s <em>Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying </em> (1840)—a representation of the <em>Zong</em> massacre—to Charles Chesnutt’s novel <em>The Marrow...

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Main Authors: Zachary Tavlin, Matthew Hitchman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fj868sb