Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation (U.S.)
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.
“There’s this beautiful and long history for the reparations struggle. The struggle for wealth, the struggle for education, and the demand for social protection.”
- Kris Manjapra on WVON
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Reviews for Black Ghost of Empire (U.S.)
"A worthy contribution to the controversial discussions around how to compensate for crimes past and present."
“an essential contribution to understanding the legacy of slavery”
“Manjapra considers the ways in which grassroots Black activists have become the stewards of care and recovery, for both the past and the present.”
“Manjapra tells how the US civil war is so often viewed as the struggle against the ruthless Southern plantation slavers by the Northern abolitionists. But the Northern abolitionists, under the “heroic” leadership of Abraham Lincoln, had a somewhat underwhelming vision of emancipation.”
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