In Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipation and the lasting impact these transitions had on formerly enslaved groups around the Atlantic.
Manjapra shows how, amidst this unfinished history, grassroots Black organizers and activists have become custodians of collective recovery and remedy, not only for our present, but also for our relationship with the past.
Timely, lucid and crucial to our understanding of the ongoing “anti-mattering” of Black people, Black Ghost of Empire shines a light into the deep gap between the idea of slavery’s end and its actual perpetuation in various forms — exposing the shadows that linger to this day.
