A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America by Jacqueline Jones

A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

Jacqueline Jones

400 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
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In 1656, a Maryland planter tortured and killed an enslaved man named Antonio, an Angolan who refused to work in the fields. Three hundred years later, Simon P. Owens battled soul-deadening technologies as well as the fiction of race that divided ...

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