The Freedom Movement's Lost Legacy (eBook)

Black Abolitionism since Emancipation

Keith P. Griffler (Autor)

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2023
302 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9731-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In the century after emancipation, the long shadow of slavery left African Americans well short of the freedom promised to them. While sharecropping and debt peonage entrapped Black people in the South, 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 movementthe 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: Black Abolitionism since Emancipation is the first historical account of the Black freedom movement's response to modern slaveryin the twentieth century. Keith P. Griffler details how the mainstream international 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 "e;new slavery"e; 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 in 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 traditions and efforts of these early Black leaders and abolitionistsan important chapter in the history of antislavery and the ongoing Black freedom struggle.

Autor

Keith P. Griffler is associate professor of Africana and American studies at State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. The Origins and Launch of Twentieth Century Black Abolitionism
2. Reactivating the Antislavery-Antiracism Alliance for a New Century
3. The Rise of a New Antislavery
4. "The Emancipation of Man"
5. The Emancipation of Women
6. Black Abolitionism and the New Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2023
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: alice kinloch • antiracism • antislavery • black freedom movement • Frederick Douglass • Ida B. Wells • international antislavery law • new antislavery • new slavery • Pan Africanism • W.E.B. Du Bois
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-9731-7 / 0813197317
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9731-9 / 9780813197319