Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy

by Steven A. Epstein

Book Overview

"The language of slavery is the last but steep price any society must pay for having tolerated the institution and profited from it. . . . The hypocrisies, the racism, the sexism, the brutality bound up with the daily practice of slavery live on in language, where they continue to punish the descendants of both owners and slaves indiscriminately. The habits of expression that excused slavery endure as unfinished business, unexpiated sin, in all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501725122
• ISBN13: 9781501725128
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher