Known for my work : African American ethics from slavery to freedom / Lynda J. Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Lynda J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions.

Ethics--United States.

Ethics.

Race relations.

Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects.

Slavery.

United States.

African American philosophy.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans--Psychology.

Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

United States--Race relations--Moral and ethical aspects.

United States--Moral conditions.

Moral conditions.

Race relations--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 197 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

Summary:

"Lynda Morgan builds an intellectual and social history of slave thought about labor and morality, and she traces elements through Reconstruction and the civil rights movement. She concludes her manuscript by connecting this legacy to reparations arguments and apologies for slavery that continue in the present day"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. The social and intellectual gifts of black folk : foundations and legacies of a humanistic democratic ethos

"There will be a day of reckoning" : What is a slave?

"I found that there were puzzling exceptions" : the economic foundations of race during slavery and Jim Crow

In a cage of obscene birds : slavery's consequences for slaveholders and the nation

"Cruelty is inseparable from slavery" : violence, rape, and the right of self-defense

Democracy meets the industrial revolution : reconstruction achievements and the counterrevolution against them

Ethical transmissions : consultations with the emancipation generation

Ethical legacies for the twenty-first century : apologies, regrets, therapy, and reparations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-184) and index.

ISBN:

9780813062730

081306273X

OCLC:

922156086