The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines

by Michael Salman

Book Overview

A series of controversies over the existence and meaning of slavery shaped American colonialism and nationalist resistance in the Philippines. While American officials claimed colonialism would free Filipinos from various forms of slavery and American anti-imperialists countered that colonialism itself would constitute new kinds of bondage, the first generation of Filipino nationalists had already appropriated anti-slavery rhetoric in their struggles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520240715
• ISBN13: 9780520240711
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"