Slavery Interpreting American History (Paperback Book)

Name: Slavery Interpreting American History (Paperback Book)
Brand: Kent State University Press

Kent State University Press

A survey and interpretive study of one of the defining issues in America's past \nAmericans have vigorously debated and interpreted the role of slavery in American life for as long as enslaved people and their descendants have lived in North America. Contemporaries and later writers and scholars up to the present day have explored the meaning of slavery as a system of labor, an ideological paradox in a \""free\"" political and social order, a violent mode of racial exploitation, and a global system of human commodification and trafficking.\nTo fully understand the various ways in which slavery has been depicted and described is a difficult task. Like any other important historical issue, this requires a thorough grasp of the underlying history, methodological developments over time, and the\n\nSlavery\nInterpreting American History\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note: the price adver;