Subjugation and Bondage

by Lott, Tommy

• ISBN13: 9780847687787
• ISBN10: 0847687783
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

A collection of recent essays by today's most innovative social thinkers addressing a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an institutionalized social practice.

Author Biography

Anita L. Allen, Associate Dean and Professor, The Law Center, Georgetown University. Bernard R. Boxill, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Joshua Cohen, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. R. M. Hare, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida. Bill E. Lawson, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University. Tommy L. Lott, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri--St. Louis. Howard McGary, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Julius Moravcsik, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University. John Perry, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University. Laurence M. Thomas, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Syracruse University. William Uzgalis, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Oregon State University. Julie K. Ward, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago. Cynthia Willett, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Emory University. Bernard Williams, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of California--Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Necessary Identities	p. 1
Radical Implications of Locke's Moral Theory: The Views of Frederick Douglass	p. 29
"... The Same Tyrannical Principle": Locke's Legacy on Slavery	p. 49
"The Master's Tools": Abolitionist Arguments of Equiano and Cugoano	p. 79
Early Enlightenment Conceptions of the Rights of Slaves	p. 99
Locke and the Legal Obligations of Black Americans	p. 131
The Master-Slave Dialectic: Hegel vs. Douglass	p. 151
Slavery and the Ties that Do Not Bind	p. 171
Paternalism and Slavery	p. 187
What Is Wrong with Slavery	p. 209
Slavery and Surrogacy	p. 229
American Slavery and the Holocaust: Their Ideologies Compared	p. 255
The Arc of the Moral Universe	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 329
Index	p. 339
Contributors	p. 351
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