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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Plant, Deborah G., 1956-     Subjects     Slavery -- United States.     Blacks -- United States -- Civil rights.     Minorities -- Civil rights -- United States.     Prisoners, Black -- United States.     Race discrimination -- United States.     United States -- Race relations.     United States -- Politics and government.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Plant, Deborah G., 1956-       by title:      Of greed and glory :...       by call number:      326.0973 P713o     Search the Web     Plant, Deborah G., 1956-     Slavery -- United States.     Blacks -- United States -- Civil rights.     Minorities -- Civil rights -- United States.     Prisoners, Black -- United States.     Race discrimination -- United States.     United States -- Race relations.     United States -- Politics and government.       MARC Display

Of greed and glory : in pursuit of freedom for all / Deborah G. Plant. by Plant, Deborah G., 1956- Amistad, 2024. Call #: 326.0973 P713o Subjects Slavery -- United States.   Blacks -- United States -- Civil rights.   Minorities -- Civil rights -- United States.   Prisoners, Black -- United States.   Race discrimination -- United States.   United States -- Race relations.   United States -- Politics and government. ISBN:  9780062898494 (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  277 p. ; 24 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Summary:  "A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America’s obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times–bestselling Barracoon. Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American’s personal sovereignty. And yet, millions of Americans -- including author Deborah Plant’s brother, whose life sentence at Angola Prison reveals a shocking current parallel to her academic work on the history of slavery in America -- are deprived of these basic freedoms every day. In her studies of Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah Plant became fascinated by Hurston’s explanation for the atrocities of the international slave trade. In her memoir, Dust Tracks on a Road, Hurston wrote: “But the inescapable fact that stuck in my craw, was: my people had sold me and the white people had bought me...It impressed upon me the universal nature of greed and glory.” We look the other way when the basic human rights of marginalized and stigmatized groups are violated and desecrated, not realizing that only the practice of justice everywhere secures justice, for any of us, anywhere. An active vigilance is required of those who would be and remain free; with Of Greed and Glory, Deborah Plant reveals the many ways in which slavery continues in America today and charts our collective course toward personal sovereignty for all."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 326.0973 P713o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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