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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New York :
Basic Books,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
