In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to fre…
"From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and sold at the slave markets for millennia, trading the human plunder of wars and slave raids that reached from the Russian steppes t…
Here is the United States Congress in the 1830s, grappling (or trying unsuccessfully to avoid grappling) with the gravest moral dilemma inherited from the framers of the Constitution. Here is the concept (and reality) of the ownership of human beings confronting three of the mos…
Here is the United States Congress in the 1830s, grappling (or trying unsuccessfully to avoid grappling) with the gravest moral dilemma inherited from the framers of the Constitution. Here is the concept (and reality) of the ownership of human beings confronting three of the mos…
In The Representation of Slavery in Cuban Fiction, Lorna Williams examines the work of six antislavery writers from nineteenth-century Cuba. Recognizing that these slave narratives represent the fledgling articulations of an emerging black voice, as well as lay the foundation fo…
This is the first collection of Cooper's major writings, including many never before published. Also includes "The Higher Education of Women" from A Voice From the South as recommended in the Wheatley edition of the CCSS Curriculum Maps.
"Recently Anna Julia Cooper has emerged as the most important classic writer in the tradition of African American feminist thought. Mary Helen Washington described Cooper's work as'the most precise, forceful, well-argued statement of black feminist thought to come out of the nin…
This is the first collection of Cooper's major writings, including many never before published. Also includes "The Higher Education of Women" from A Voice From the South as recommended in the Wheatley edition of the CCSS Curriculum Maps.
Betoogd wordt dat teksten van Britse witte vrouwen die ageerden tegen slavernij onderdeel waren van een koloniaal en imperialistisch vertoog.
The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transitio…
