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Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today - Couverture rigide

Spillman, Scott

 
9781541602090: Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today
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ISBN 10 : 1541602099 ISBN 13 : 9781541602090
Editeur : Basic Books, 2025

Synopsis

An "essential" (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life

In recent years, from school board meetings to the halls of Congress, Americans have engaged in fierce debates about how slavery and its legacies ought to be taught, researched, and narrated. But since the earliest days of the Republic, political leaders, abolitionists, judges, scholars, and ordinary citizens have all struggled to explain and understand the peculiar institution.

In Making Sense of Slavery, historian Scott Spillman shows that the study of slavery was a vital catalyst for the broader development of American intellectual life and politics. In contexts ranging from the plantation fields to the university classroom, Americans interpreted slavery and its afterlives through many lenses, shaping the trajectory of disciplines from economics to sociology, from psychology to history. Spillman delves deeply into the archives, and into the pathbreaking work of scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Annette Gordon-Reed, to trace how generations of Americans have wrestled with the paradox of slavery in a country founded on principles of liberty and equality.

As the debate over the place of slavery in our history rages on, Making Sense of Slavery shows that what is truly central to American history is this very debate itself.

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À propos de l'auteur

Scott Spillman received his PhD in history from Stanford University. His writing has appeared in the New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, and The Point. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1541602099
ISBN 13 
9781541602090
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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