BLACK GHOST OF EMPIRE: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

In this work Manjapra identifies five types of emancipations around the globe--gradual emancipations in the American North, compensated and retroactive emancipations in the Caribbean, emancipation by war in the American South, and emancipation as pretext for massive colonialism in Africa--and reveals how they perceived failures were not failures at all. Photos.