9. “Strength of the Lion . . . Arms Like Polished Iron”. Embodying Black Masculinity in an Age of Slavery and Propertied Manhood

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. New Men: Feminist Histories of Manliness in Early British America 1
6. Part I. Settlement
7. 1. Gentlemen and Soldiers: Competing Visions of Manhood in Early Jamestown 9
8. 2. Indian and English Dreams: Colonial Hierarchy and Manly Restraint in Seventeenth-Century New England 31
9. Part II. Warfare
10. 3. “We are men” Native American and Euroamerican Projections of Masculinity During the Seven Years’ War 51
11. 4. Real Men: Masculinity, Spirituality, and Community in Late Eighteenth-Century Cherokee Warfare 71
12. Part III. Atlantic
13. 5. “Blood and Lust”: Masculinity and Sexuality in Illustrated Print Portrayals of Early Pirates of the Caribbean 95
14. 6. “Banes of Society” and “Gentlemen of Strong Natural Parts”. Attacking and Defending West Indian Creole Masculinity 116
15. 7. “Impatient of Subordination” and “Liable to Sudden Transports of Anger”: White Masculinity and Homosocial Relations with Black Men in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica 134
16. Part IV. Enactment
17. 8. “Effective Men” and Early Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725–1775 155
18. 9. “Strength of the Lion . . . Arms Like Polished Iron”. Embodying Black Masculinity in an Age of Slavery and Propertied Manhood 172
19. Part V. Revolution
20. 10. Of Eloquence “Manly” and “Monstrous”: The Henpecked. Husband in Revolutionary Political Debate, 1774–1775 195
21. 11. John Adams and the Choice of Hercules. Manliness and Sexual Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British America 217
22. 12. “Play the Man . . . for Your Bleeding Country”: Military Chaplains as Gender Brokers During the American Revolutionary War 236
23. Afterword: Contending Masculinities in Early America 256
24. About the Contributors 269
25. Index 271