Title Known for my work : African American ethics from slavery to freedom / Lynda J. Morgan.

Publication Info.	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
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Description	1 online resource (ix, 197 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-184) and index.
Contents	Introduction. The social and intellectual gifts of black folk : foundations and legacies of a humanistic democratic ethos -- "There will be a day of reckoning" : What is a slave? -- "I found that there were puzzling exceptions" : the economic foundations of race during slavery and Jim Crow -- In a cage of obscene birds : slavery's consequences for slaveholders and the nation -- "Cruelty is inseparable from slavery" : violence, rape, and the right of self-defense -- Democracy meets the industrial revolution : reconstruction achievements and the counterrevolution against them -- Ethical transmissions : consultations with the emancipation generation -- Ethical legacies for the twenty-first century : apologies, regrets, therapy, and reparations.
Summary	"Lynda Morgan builds an intellectual and social history of slave thought about labor and morality, and she traces elements through Reconstruction and the civil rights movement. She concludes her manuscript by connecting this legacy to reparations arguments and apologies for slavery that continue in the present day"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject	African Americans -- Social conditions.
	African Americans -- Social conditions.
	Ethics -- United States.
	Ethics.
	United States.
	African American philosophy.
	African American philosophy.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans -- Psychology.
	African Americans -- Psychology.
	Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
	Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Slavery.
	United States -- Race relations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Race relations.
	United States -- Moral conditions.
	Moral conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Morgan, Lynda J. Known for my work. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] 9780813062730 (DLC) 2016004126 (OCoLC)922156086
ISBN	9780813055916 (electronic book)
	0813055911 (electronic book)
	9780813062730
	081306273X

Title Known for my work : African American ethics from slavery to freedom / Lynda J. Morgan.

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