Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today Scott Spillman ebook#
Page: 448
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ISBN: 9781541602090
Publisher: Basic Books
An “essential” (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public lifeIn recent years, from school board meetings to the halls of Congress, Americans have engaged in fierce debates about how slavery and its legacies ought to be taught, researched, and narrated. But since the earliest days of the Republic, political leaders, abolitionists, judges, scholars, and ordinary citizens have all struggled to explain and understand the peculiar institution.
In Making Sense of Slavery, historian Scott Spillman shows that the study of slavery was a vital catalyst for the broader development of American intellectual life and politics. In contexts ranging from the plantation fields to the university classroom, Americans interpreted slavery and its afterlives through many lenses, shaping the trajectory of disciplines from economics to sociology, from psychology to history. Spillman delves deeply into the archives, and into the pathbreaking work of scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Annette Gordon-Reed, to trace how generations of Americans have wrestled with the paradox of slavery in a country founded on principles of liberty and equality.
As the debate over the place of slavery in our history rages on, Making Sense of Slavery shows that what is truly central to American history is this very debate itself. How the Study of Slavery Has Shaped the Academy Scott Spillman is an American historian and author of Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, From the Founding Era to Today (2025). Historiography books - Hachette Australia Browse All ; Making Sense of Slavery: America s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today · Making Sense of Slavery: America s Long Reckoning, from the . Scott Spillman Scott Spillman is an American historian and the author of the book Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today (2025). Книга «Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from . Книга Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today . In recent years, from school board meetings to the halls of Congress, . Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the . An “essential” (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era . Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the . In an age of book banning and political polarization, Spillman shows us the stakes regarding the history of slavery could not be higher.