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

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A series of controversies over the existence and meaning of slavery shaped American colonialism and nationalist resistance within the Philippines. Whilst American officials claimed colonialism would free Filipinos from more than a few types of slavery and American anti-imperialists countered that colonialism itself would constitute new sorts of bondage, the primary generation of Filipino nationalists had already appropriated anti-slavery rhetoric of their struggles with Spanish colonialism within the late nineteenth century. From these contentions about slavery as a political metaphor, new disputes erupted when American officials “came upon” the practice of slavery among minority groups, such as the Moro (Muslim) societies of the southern Philippines and animist groups in upland northern Luzon. Michael Salman reconstructs these controversies and charts the successive emergence of slavery as an embarrassment for American colonial officials, Filipino nationalists, and American anti-imperialists.

The Embarrassment of Slavery examines, for the primary time, the salience of slavery and abolition within the history of American colonialism and Philippine nationalism. In doing so, it makes major contributions to the global and comparative study of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and nationalism. This book also expands our figuring out of slavery and abolition by explaining the link between the globalization of nationalism and the spread of antislavery as a hegemonic ideology within the up to date world.
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