A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America by Jacqueline A. Jones

A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

Jacqueline A. Jones

400 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding ...

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