Seeking the High Ground Lynne M. (Marie) Casper Written in accessible language and

Written in accessible language and backed by the latest scientific research

fragmented by isms

capable of being grasped by human consciousness as if from within

examining how

Seeking the High Ground Lynne M. (Marie) Casper Written in accessible language andHow American slavery engendered a new political vocabulary used on both sides of the Atlantic How is it, Samuel Johnson famously asked on the eve of the Revolution, that Americans could so vociferously demand freedom for themselves while so conspicuously continuing to deny it to those they held in slavery? With Seeking the High Ground, Matthew Mason helps answer that piercing question. As he shows, the language of slavery and freedom had long suffused