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

Publication Info.	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
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Description	1 online resource (ix, 197 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-184) and index.
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.
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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	African Americans -- Social conditions.
	Ethics -- 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.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	African American philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00799296
	African Americans -- Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00799627
	African Americans -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst00799664
	African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
	Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
	Moral conditions. (OCoLC)fst01026043
	Race relations -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst01086517
	Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst01120478
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Morgan, Lynda J. Known for my work. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] 9780813062730 (DLC) 2016004126 (OCoLC)922156086
ISBN	9780813055916 (electronic bk.)
	0813055911 (electronic bk.)

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