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UNINA9910151640303321 |
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Autore |
Morgan Lynda J. |
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Titolo |
Known for My Work : African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom / / Lynda J. Morgan |
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Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - Moral and ethical aspects - United States |
African Americans - Psychology |
African Americans - Intellectual life |
African American philosophy |
Ethics - United States |
African Americans - Social conditions |
Electronic books. |
United States Moral conditions |
United States Race relations Moral and ethical aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: The social and intellectual gifts of black folk : foundations and legacies of a humanistic democratic ethos -- "There will be a day of reckoning" : What is a slave? -- "I found that there were puzzling exceptions" : the economic foundations of race during slavery and Jim Crow -- In a cage of obscene birds : slavery's consequences for slaveholders and the nation -- "Cruelty is inseparable from slavery" : violence, rape, and the right of self-defense -- Democracy meets the industrial revolution : reconstruction achievements and the counterrevolution against them -- Ethical transmissions : consultations with the emancipation generation -- Ethical legacies for the twenty-first century : apologies, regrets, therapy, and reparations. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Lynda Morgan builds an intellectual and social history of slave thought about labor and morality, and she traces elements through |
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