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A collection of recent essays by today's most innovative social thinkers addressing a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an institutionalized social practice.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Necessary Identities Chapter 4 Radical Implications of Locke's Moral Theory: The Views of Frederick Douglass Chapter 5 ". . . The Same Tyrannical Principle": Locke's Legacy on Slavery Chapter 6 "The Master's Tools": Abolitionist Arguments of Equiano and Cugoano Chapter 7 Early Enlightenment Conceptions of the Rights of Slaves Chapter 8 Locke and the Legal Obligations of Black Americans Chapter 9 The Master-Slave Dialectic: Hegel vs. Douglass Chapter 10 Slavery and the Ties that Do Not Bind Chapter 11 Paternalism and Slavery Chapter 12 What Is Wrong with Slavery Chapter 13 Slavery and Surrogacy Chapter 14 American Slavery and the Holocaust: Their Ideologies Compared Chapter 15 The Arc of the Moral Universe Chapter 16 Bibliography Chapter 17 Index Chapter 18 Contributors
About the author
Contributions by Anita Allen; Bernard Boxill; Joshua Cohen; R M. Hare; Bill Lawson; Tommy Lott; Howard McGary; Julius Moravcsik; Laurence Thomas; William Uzgalis; Julie Ward; Bernard Williams and Cynthia Willett
Summary
A collection of recent essays by today's most innovative social thinkers addressing a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an institutionalized social practice.
