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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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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
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December 1, 2022
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
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TuftsNow
on
June 15, 2022
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
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The New Republic
on
April 15, 2022