The Embarrassment of Slavery

""The Embarrassment of Slavery" will make a major contribution to the global history of slavery and colonialism as well as to U.S. history in general. . . . Few if any of the hundreds of scholars who have revolutionized our understanding of New World slavery and abolition know that slavery became a central issue in the ensuing debates over colonialism and Philippine independence. Michael Salman fills this vacuum and greatly expands our historical horizon. He also integrates the story of slavery in the Philippines with an enriched interpretation of antislavery ideology."--David Brion Davis, author of "The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture" and "Slavery and Human Progress," and Director of Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition "Based on a broad and careful consideration of archival sources, Salman presents a wide range of materials that have often been at the periphery of scholarship on colonial and national histories but have never been treated systematically. Using the prism of anti-slavery ideology and the lingering anxieties about slavery and its opposite conditions, Salman is poised to make a crucial intervention in the comparative study of twentieth century colonialism. "The Embarrassment of Slavery" is an original and compelling work."--Vicente Rafael, author of "White Love and Other Events in Filipino History" and "Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversions in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule"