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1 online resource (xi, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : map, illustrations |
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text file |
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polychrome |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Emancipation and the Void -- Making Africans Pay, Gradually, in the American North -- Punishing the Black Nation in Haiti -- British Antislavery and the Emancipation of Property -- Rewarding Perpetrators and Abandoning Victims Across the Caribbean -- From Civil War to Dirty War Against Black Lives -- Global Jim Crow and Emancipation in Africa - Conclusion. Insurgent Presence of Reparations. |
| Summary |
"If the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this "historical, literary masterpiece" (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses on emancipation and how its afterlife further codified the racial caste system -- instead of obliterating it. To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the way it ended. Between the 1770s and 1880s, emancipation processes took off across the Atlantic world. But far from ushering in a new age of human rights and universal freedoms, these emancipations further codified the racial caste systems they claimed to disrupt. In this paradigm-altering book, acclaimed historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipations across the globe and reveals that their perceived failures were not failures at all, but the predictable outcomes of policies designed first and foremost to preserve the status quo of racial oppression. In the process, Manjapra shows how, amidst this unfinished history, grassroots Black organizers and activists have become custodians of collective recovery and remedy; not only for our present, but also for our relationship with the past. Black Ghost of Empire will rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live. Timely, lucid, and crucial to our understanding of contemporary society, this book shines a light into the gap between the idea of slavery's end and the reality of its continuation -- exposing to whom a debt was paid and to whom a debt is owed." -- Provided by the publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost All EBSCO eBooks |
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Liberty -- Case studies.
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Liberty. |
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Case studies.
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Race relations -- Case studies.
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Race relations. |
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Slavery -- Political aspects.
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Slavery -- Political aspects. |
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Slavery. |
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HISTORY / African American & Black. |
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HISTORY / United States / General. |
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Other Form: |
Print version. Manjapra, Kris, 1978- Black ghost of empire. New York : Scribner, 2022 9781982123475 (DLC) 2021059433 (OCoLC)1290891616 |
| ISBN |
1982123508 |
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9781982123505 (electronic book) |
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9781982123475 |
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1982123478 |
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