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Black ghost of empire, the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation, Kris Manjapra

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Black ghost of empire, the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation, Kris Manjapra

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

platesmapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black ghost of empire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Kris Manjapra

Sub title

the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation

Summary

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 book, historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipations around the globe and reveals how 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.--, Adapted from jacket

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