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Polemical Pain
Margaret Abruzzo
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Description for Polemical Pain
Polemical Pain shows how the debate over slavery's cruelty played a large, unrecognized role in shaping moral categories that remain pertinent today. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 344 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1660.
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 the nature and development of humanitarianism and how the slavery issue helped shape modern concepts of human responsibility for the suffering of others. Abruzzo first traces the slow, indirect growth in the eighteenth century ... Read more
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 the nature and development of humanitarianism and how the slavery issue helped shape modern concepts of human responsibility for the suffering of others. Abruzzo first traces the slow, indirect growth in the eighteenth century ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
Number of Pages
344
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801898525
SKU
V9780801898525
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About Margaret Abruzzo
Margaret Abruzzo is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama.
Reviews for Polemical Pain
A fascinating book on history and consequences of slavery. The research [is] impeccable and it [is] organized in a very readable and easy to grasp fashion.
Lenore R. Book Bargains and Previews 2011
Lenore R. Book Bargains and Previews 2011