![]() ![]() Slavery and the subjugation of free black people were therefore a matter of whites’ color-blind self-interest, whether it meant making money or protecting one’s job.Īccording to Jones, racial ideology didn’t truly rear its ugly head until the American Revolution. It asserts that slavery and discrimination were driven not by racial ideology but by the “raw power” of Europeans over a vulnerable people who, unlike Native Americans, had no strong nations to protect them. But as an argument about race, the book falls short. ![]() Owens, a black revolutionary auto worker navigating the shift from industrial to postindustrial Detroit in the late 1960s and ‘70s.Įach story provides a window into a time, a region and a web of political and legal entanglements. ![]() Jones sets out to overturn the “creation story” with an alternative narrative fashioned from six fairly obscure lives: Symon Overzee, a plantation owner in 17th century Maryland tried for killing his slave Boston King, a fugitive slave from South Carolina who preached and acted on behalf of his own liberty during the American Revolution Elleanor Eldridge, a wealthy free black woman fighting discrimination in antebellum Rhode Island Richard White, light-skinned, educated, Civil War veteran whose failed political career served as a microcosm for the triumph of racism and Reconstruction’s defeat William Holtzclaw, who turned to education to fight Jim Crow and lynch law in Mississippi in the early 20th century and Simon P. ![]()
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