Sophie on Nostr: Just finished Kris Manjapra’s “Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery ...
Just finished Kris Manjapra’s “Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation”
Fascinating and heartbreaking analysis of how #emancipation has always been a means of continuing slavery while pretending to eliminate it (via “indenture periods” and reparations to slavers for “property lost”) and how to move past this #history for a more #humane world
npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 (npub1kt3…5004) #bookstodon
Fascinating and heartbreaking analysis of how #emancipation has always been a means of continuing slavery while pretending to eliminate it (via “indenture periods” and reparations to slavers for “property lost”) and how to move past this #history for a more #humane world
npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 (npub1kt3…5004) #bookstodon