Open AccessEncountering the Viper: Edward Bliss Emerson and Slavery
Author(s) -
Ramírez de Arellano,
Becker Annette
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2014.1244
Subject(s) - bliss , curiosity , politics , institution , philosophy , psychoanalysis , classics , literature , sociology , art , law , psychology , political science , social science , social psychology , computer science , programming language
The journal of Edward Bliss Emerson often mentions topics that piqued his curiosity because they were unusual or puzzling. Few subjects were as foreign to him as slavery. Writing in 1831-32, Emerson provides us a series of aural and visual vignettes rather than a coherent commentary on slavery as a way of life. Focusing on the everyday aspects of the institution instead of the politics and economics behind it, Emerson nevertheless suggests the different lenses through which slavery was viewed by a New England intellectual and others.