Slavery: Interpreting American History Astor Aaron
A survey and interpretive study of one of the defining issues in America's pastAmericans have vigorously debated and interpreted the role of slavery in American life for as long as enslaved people and…
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A survey and interpretive study of one of the defining issues in America's pastAmericans 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.To 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 contemporary politics and culture of historians' own times. And the