Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation (UK)
Emancipation was inherently designed to fail the people coming out of bondage. In response, Africans found pathways to heal themselves, their families, and their lineages.
“Emancipation actually conspired to perpetuate the racial caste system as opposed to disrupting it.”
- Kris Manjapra on History Extra Podcast
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Reviews Black Ghost of Empire (UK)
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.
Enslaved or free? As Kris Manjapra relates in this history of slavery and emancipation in the 19th century, the question was never quite as simple as it appears.
“an essential contribution to understanding the legacy of slavery”
“Consequently, his book offers a frequently unsettling counter-narrative to the congratulatory strand of abolitionist history. “The history of slavery and emancipation is not a story of endings, but of unendings” and, he adds, the effects and the lack of meaningful restitutions and redress still affect post-slavery societies today.”
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