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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

5. The Genealogy of (Im)Morals

Author : Michael E. Sawyer

Published in: An Africana Philosophy of Temporality

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This section endeavors to frame the Atlantic World’s plantation generally and Jefferson’s Monticello specifically as factories of particular types of Exalted and Abject beings. Sally Hemings, the property (enslaved woman) and mistress (mother of his children) of Thomas Jefferson, is examined as a particular type of revolutionary actor that captures agency through the self-alienation of her own freedom in order to secure that of her progeny. This is in counter-point to other modes of agency employed by enslaved women that included infanticide as presented in Morrison’s Beloved as a method of recapturing lost agency and shattering the essential genealogical logic of the enslaved condition.

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Footnotes
1
Madison, James. The Federalist Papers. p. 332.
 
2
Kantorowicz. p. 100.
 
3
Agamben. Homo Sacer. p. 82.
 
4
Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Norton: 2008.
 
5
Ibid. p. 24.
 
6
Ibid. p. 385.
 
7
An unwed pregnancy.
 
8
Ibid. p. 326.
 
9
Ibid. p. 335.
 
10
Ibid. pp. 312–315.
 
11
Ibid. p. 327.
 
12
Sloterdijk, Peter. Bubbles: Spheres I. Semiotext(e): 2011. pp. 145–146.
 
13
Nancy, Jean-Luc. Noli me tangere: On the Raising of the Body. Fordham: 2008. pp. 17–18.
 
14
Ibid. pp. 14–15.
 
Literature
Gordon-Reed, Annette. 2008. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. New York: Norton.
Madison, James. 2014. The Federalist Papers. Mineola: Dover.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. 2008. Noli Me Tangere: On the Raising of the Body. New York: Fordham University Press.
Sloterdijk, Peter. 2011. Bubbles: Spheres I. South Pasadena: Semiotext(e).
Metadata
Title
The Genealogy of (Im)Morals
Author
Michael E. Sawyer
Copyright Year
2018
Book
An Africana Philosophy of Temporality

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-98574-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-98575-6

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98575-6_5