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Kris Manjapra
To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts our society today, we must not only look at what slavery was, but the unfinished way it ended. We celebrate the abolition of slavery - in the British Empire in 1833, in Haiti after the revolution, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in
Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra reveals how during each of these supposed emancipations, the prevailing systems of social bondage were simply reconfigured, and Black people largely dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them.
Moving around the Atlantic world, from New England to Jamaica, Britain to West Africa, Manjapra unearths the uncomfortable truths about this Age of Emancipation, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations were given to wealthy slaveowners, not the enslaved, in vast sums that were only paid off in 2015. In Jamaica, Black people were freed only to enter into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itse ....

Kris Manjapra , Berlin Institute For Advanced Study , Tufts University , Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study , Scholar Award , Berlin Institute , Advanced Study , Radcliffe Institute , Indian Intellectuals Across Empire , Colonial Marxism , Cosmopolitan Thought Zones , கிரிஸ் மஞ்சப்பிர , டஃப்ட்ஸ் பல்கலைக்கழகம் , அறிஞர் விருது , பெர்லின் நிறுவனம் , ராட்க்ளிஃப் நிறுவனம் , இந்தியன் புத்திஜீவிகள் குறுக்கே பேரரசு , காஸ்மோபாலிட்டன் சிந்தனை ஸோந்ஸ் ,