Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation - Kris Manjapra
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Colonialism
Emancipation
Empire
History
Imperialism
Racism
Slavery
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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 it.
To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the way it ended. Between the 1770s and 1880s, emancipation processes took off across the Atlantic world. But far from ushering in a new age of human rights and universal freedoms, these emancipations further codified the racial caste systems they claimed to disrupt.
In this paradigm-altering book, acclaimed historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipations across the globe and reveals that their perceived failures were not failures at all, but the predictable outcomes of policies designed first and foremost to preserve the status quo of racial oppression. In the process, Manjapra shows how, amidst this unfinished history, grassroots Black organizers and activists have become custodians of collective recovery and remedy; not only for our present, but also for our relationship with the past.
Black Ghost of Empire will rewire listeners’ understanding of the world in which we live. Timely, lucid, and crucial to our understanding of contemporary society, this book shines a light into the gap between the idea of slavery’s end and the reality of its continuation—exposing to whom a debt was paid and to whom a debt is owed.
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This post has 5 comments
February 22nd, 2023
The 1619 project is ahistorical silliness, no illumination happened because of it unles we count the illumination of how incoherent the Left can be.
February 22nd, 2023
1619 project is literally history. If you don’t like American history because you cannot accept the truth that Americans were barbarians, that’s a you problem and an America problem. Your lack of historical knowledge is showing.
February 23rd, 2023
daenigma, are you aware that areas in Africa slavery is still legal? They still bind up Africans in cages and chains and sell them? White people abolished slavery, blacks did not. We all know what country was really founded on slavery.
And the line ” life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery” says nothing, since the slaves just picked cotton and other agricultural products. They had no more effect on lives in the USA than the immigrants that pick all our agricultural products today! All books like this do is promote hatred and racism.
And guest1321, you know nothing about history because many other countries were far more barbaric then the USA, particularly all the genocide’s that happened in Africa. Get your head out of the dirt and read a book.
February 23rd, 2023
Black slaves were sold by black slavers. White people fought wars to end black slavery. Take away someone’s victim hood and you rob them of their identity. Sad
February 23rd, 2023
Banal mass-market drivel.
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