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Black Ghost of Empire - The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation (Hardcover)
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Black Ghost of Empire - The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation (Hardcover)
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'One of the most important and timely books I've had the privilege
to read' Corinne Fowler, author of Green Unpleasant Land A
revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery
in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery
haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We
celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British
Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in
Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra argues
that during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were
dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them.
Emancipation, in other words, simply codified the existing racial
caste system - rather than obliterating it. Ranging across the
Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths disturbing truths
about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations
were given to wealthy slaveowners, not the enslaved, a vast debt
that was only paid off in 2015, and the crucial role of Black
abolitionists and rebellions in bringing an end to slavery has been
overlooked. In Jamaica, Black people were liberated only to enter
into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself. In the
American South, the formerly enslaved were 'freed' into a system of
white supremacy and racial terror. Across Africa, emancipation
served as an alibi for colonization. None of these emancipations
involved atonement by the enslavers and their governments for
wrongs committed, or reparative justice for the formerly
enslaved-an omission that grassroots Black organizers and activists
are rightly seeking to address today. Black Ghost of Empire will
rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live.
Paradigm-shifting, lucid and courageous, this book shines a light
into the enigma of slavery's supposed death, and its afterlives.
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