Making sense of slavery America's long reckoning, from the founding era to today
"In recent years 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 understa...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "In recent years 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 429 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-408) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781541602090 1541602099 |
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