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"Using history to make slavery history": the African American past and the challenge of contemporary slavery

This article argues that contemporary antislavery activism in the United States is programmatically undermined and ethically compromised unless it is firmly grounded in a deep understanding of the African American past. Far too frequently those who claim to be "the new abolitionists" evince no interest in what the original abolitionist movement might have to teach them and seem entirely detached from a U.S. history in which the mass, systematic enslavement of African Americans and its consequences are dominating themes. As a result contemporary antislavery activism too often marginalizes the struggle for racial justice in the United States and even indulges in racist ideology. In an effort to overcome these problems, this article seeks to demonstrate in specific detail how knowledge of the African American past can empower opposition to slavery as we encounter it today.

ISSN
2183-2803
Extent
Seite(n): 125-135
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Social Inclusion, 3(1)

Subject
Geschichte
Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
soziale Probleme
historische Entwicklung
USA
Sklaverei
Rassismus
Auswirkung

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Stewart, James B.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2015

DOI
Last update
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Object type

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Associated

  • Stewart, James B.

Time of origin

  • 2015

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