Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism
(Part of the New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Series)
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In 2008 and 2009, the United States Congress apologized for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery." Today no one denies the cruelty of slavery, but few issues inspired more controversy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Abolitionists denounced the inhumanity of slavery, while proslavery activists proclaimed it both just and humane. Margaret Abruzzo delves deeply into the slavery debate to better understand...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0801898528
ISBN13:9780801898525
Release Date:May 2011
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.32 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"
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