Misuse of Power  Paid

African American Slavery and Its Legacy

by Jerzy Sobieraj (Author)
©2023, Monographs, 156 Pages
English Studies

Series: United States Studies: Culture, Politics, Media, Volume 783265623

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This book views the history of African American slavery and its legacy. The author examines the misuse and abuse of white power in America and focuses on the treatment of African Americans within the last three centuries. Since the author sees slavery as some wider phenomenon, he focuses on the Ku Klux Klan activity aimed against African Americans, the horror of lynching, American penal system, segregation of the races in connection with the Civil Rights Movement; in other words, those activities whose purpose was to still keep men of color in bondage or to re-enslave them.

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Introduction
Chapter 1: Slavery: From Pain to Pain
Chapter 2: African Americans and the Ku Klux Klan in the Post-Civil War Reality
Chapter 3: Lynching in America: “A rope around his neck they tied”
Chapter 4: Men of Color, Law, and the American Penal System
Chapter 5: Plessy, Segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement
Instead of Postscript: Lynching from More Angles
Timeline
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index of Names
Series Index
Pages:
156
Year:
2023
ISBN (HARDBACK):
9783631889633 (Active)
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9783631903285 (Active)
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9783631903278 (Active)
Language:
English
Published:
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2023. 156 pp.

Jerzy Sobieraj is an associate professor of American literature at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. His research focuses on Southern literature and African American studies. He is the author of Collisions of Conflict: Studies in American History and Culture, 1820–1920.

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