To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death. By Suzanne E. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. viii + 257 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03621-5.

2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-413
Author(s):  
Susannah Walker
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Funeral Directors ◽  
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Manifest Destiny ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
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American Slavery

Explores American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the subsequent Civil War in the Mississippi Valley. Discusses Jeffersonian visions and nightmares in Louisiana; the panic of 1835; the steamboat sublime; limits to capital; the runaway's river; dominion; “The Empire of the White Man's Will”; the carceral landscape; the Mississippi Valley in the time of cotton; capital, cotton, and free trade; tales of Mississippian empire; the material limits of “Manifest Destiny”; “The Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny”; and the ignominious effort to reopen the slave trade. Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

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