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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John Wood Sweet. Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730–1830. (Early America: History, Context, Culture.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 486. $49.95.

For more than a generation, historians of the American South have variously expanded on Edmund S. Morgan's famous thesis that, in the Chesapeake, American notions of freedom emerged alongside and in direct relationship to slavery. Of late, historians of the American North have made parallel claims. They argue that the North became free territory through racism and denial. The North defined freedom as exclusively white and also denied that slavery and African Americans ever played an important role in northern life. At once detailed and sweeping, social and political, archival and synthetic, John Wood Sweet's book is perhaps the most ambitious attempt yet to explain the origins of what Sweet deems "the Northern model: universal freedom but racial inequality" (p. 11).

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