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Black Ghost of Empire - The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
Category: History
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 ...Show more
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
Category: History
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United Stat ...Show more
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
Category: History
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United Stat ...Show more
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