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We Shall Be No More We Shall Be No More Suicide and Self- Government in the Newly United States R IC H A R D BE L L Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, Eng land 2012 Copyright © 2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-P ublication Data Bell, Richard, 1978– We shall be no more : suicide and self- government in the newly United States / Richard Bell. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0-6 74-0 6372- 3 (alk. paper) 1. Suicide— United States— History. 2. Suicide—P olitical aspects—United States. 3. Suicide—Moral and ethical aspects—United States. 4. Suicide in mass media. 5. Suicide—Social aspects—United States. I. Title. HV6548.U5B45 2012 362.280973—dc23 2011019574 For Sunshine Contents Introduction: Alarming Progress 1 1 S uicide and the State of the Union 16 2 The Sorrows of Young Readers 43 3 S aving Sinking Strangers 81 4 Wounds in the Belly of the State 115 5 T he Threshold of Heaven 160 6 The Problem of Slave Re sist ance 201 Conclusion: Martyrs on the Altar of the Nation 247 Notes 269 Ac know ledg ments 319 Index 321 We Shall Be No More
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