Overview
How can we understand slavery not as a closed chapter, but as a story that has been repeatedly rewritten to serve competing visions of America? The real conflict may not be over slavery itself, but rather who gets to define its meaning.
The Slavery Wars argues that the history of American slavery is inseparable from a long struggle to control how that history is told. Journalist Marc Parry reframes familiar debates by showing that a loose but powerful alliance of people and cultural institutions minimized slavery’s centrality, legitimized the Confederacy, and embedded these interpretations in textbooks, monuments, archives, and public rituals.
Simultaneously, Parry recovers a countertradition of generations of Black scholars, activists, and dissenting historians who challenged this dominant narrative, and offers a new interpretation of American history in which consequential battles have not only been fought on battlefields or within legislatures, but as part of the story a nation tells about itself.
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