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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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Making sense of slavery : |b America's long reckoning, from the founding era to today / |c Scott Spillman. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Basic Books, |c 2025. | |
| 300 | |a xiv, 429 pages ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-408) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue. Knowledge is power -- National identity -- Land and labor -- Laws and nature and nations -- Still fighting it -- Look away -- Dixie Land -- New foundations -- The problem of slavery -- Culture and consciousness -- The big picture -- The ghost. -- Epilogue. The work. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Slavery |z United States |x Historiography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Slavery |x History |x Study and teaching |z United States. | |
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