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Black Ghost of Empire

The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
  • Kris Manjapra
2022
Scribner

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  • Engraving of freed slaves arriving at Union lines, New Bern, North Carolina, 1863.
    Book Review

    The Emancipators’ Vision

    Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means?
    by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on December 1, 2022
  • Kris Manjapra standing outside by a wall. He examines the history of when slavery ended, emancipation laws kept the enslaved in bondage—and rewarded the enslavers.
    Book Review

    How Slavery Ended Slowly, and Emancipation Laws Often Kept the Enslaved in Bondage

    Tufts Professor Kris Manjapra examines the history of the injustice of abolition in the U.S. and abroad and the need for reparations in his new book.
    by Taylor McNeil via TuftsNow on June 15, 2022
  • INTERIM ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES A map of slavery laws in the United States, from 1775 to 1865.
    Book Review

    A Reckoning With How Slavery Ended

    A new book examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.
    by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on April 15, 2022
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