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Overview"In the century after Emancipation, the long shadow of slavery left African Americans well short of the freedom promised to them. Sharecropping and debt peonage entrapped Black people in the South, and across the world, European colonialism had bred a new slavery that menaced the liberty of even more Africans. A core group of Black freedom movement leaders, including Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois, followed their nineteenth century predecessors in insisting that the continuation of racial slavery anywhere put Black freedom on the line everywhere. They even predicted the consequences that ignited the recent nationwide Black Lives Matter movement - the rise of a prison industrial complex and the consequent erosion of African Americans' faith in the criminal justice system. The Freedom Movement's Lost Legacy is the first historical account of the Black freedom movement's response to modern slavery in the 20th century. Keith P. Griffler details how the mainstream antislavery movement became complicit in the enslavement of Black and brown people across the world through its sponsorship of racist international antislavery law that gave the ""new slavery"" explicit legal sanction. Black freedom movement activists, thinkers, and organizers did more than call out this breathtaking betrayal of abolitionist principles: they dedicated themselves to the eradication of slavery on whatever forms it assumed on the global stage and developed an expansive vision of human freedom. This timely and important work reminds us that the resurgence of today's Black freedom movements is a manifestation and continuation of the tradition and efforts of these early Black leaders and abolitionists - an important chapter in the history of antislavery and the ongoing Black freedom struggle." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Keith P GrifflerPublisher: The University Press of Kentucky Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813197289ISBN 10: 0813197287 Pages: 302 Publication Date: 06 June 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents"The Origins and Launch of Twentieth Century Black Abolitionism Reactivating the Antislavery-Antiracism Alliance for a New Century The Rise of a New Antislavery ""The Emancipation of Man"" The Emancipation of Women Black Abolitionism and the New Slavery in the Twenty-First Century Introduction"ReviewsAuthor InformationKeith P. Giffler is assistant professor of African American history at the University of Cincinnati. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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