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Eric Herschthal, "The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress" (Yale UP, 2021)

New Books in the History of Science

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What's Your Favorite Chapter?

The last chapter is my favorite. My anecdote comes from it. I would love to do the book over again, i would write it very differently. In many ways, i can see how black people are themselves engaging with scientific knowledge in all its forms. The power and force that comes through in black abolitionist speeches will really kind of shake you in a way that will help you reappreciate what they were trying to say.

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