Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today

Author/Contributor(s):	Spillman, Scott
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	03/04/2025
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"In recent years Americans have engaged in fierce debates about how slavery and its legacies ought to be taught, researched, and narrated. But since the earliest days of the Republic, political leaders, abolitionists, judges, scholars, and ordinary citizens have all struggled to explain and understand the peculiar institution. In Making Sense of Slavery, historian Scott Spillman shows that the study of slavery was a vital catalyst for the broader development of American intellectual life and politics. In contexts ranging from the plantation fields to the university classroom, Americans interpreted slavery and its afterlives through many lenses, shaping the trajectory of disciplines from economics to sociology, from psychology to history"--