ISBN:
1565849604
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9781565849600
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 272 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Slavery And Public History : The Tough Stuff of American Memory
DDC:
306.3/62/0973
Keywords:
Historic sites Political aspects
;
Slavery Political aspects
;
History
;
Public history
;
Slavery History
;
Slavery Historiography
;
United States Race relations
Abstract:
America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the culture wars over the way that slavery is remembered and taught have reached a new crescendo. From the argument about the display of the Confederate flag over the state house in Columbia, South Carolina, to the dispute over Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings and the ongoing debates about reparations, the questions grow ever more urgent and more difficult. Edited by noted historians James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, this c
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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