Seeking the High Ground Lynne M. (Marie) Casper communication studies and sociology

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Seeking the High Ground Lynne M. (Marie) Casper communication studies and sociologyHow American slavery engendered a new political vocabulary used on both sides of the Atlantic How is it, Samuel Johnson famously asked on the eve of the Revolution, that Americans could so vociferously demand freedom for themselves while so conspicuously continuing to deny it to those they held in slavery? With Seeking the High Ground, Matthew Mason helps answer that piercing question. As he shows, the language of slavery and freedom had long suffused