Polemical Pain
Subtitle: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780801898525
Description: " ... Shows how the debate over slavery's cruelty played a large, unrecognized role in shaping moral categories that remain pertinent today"--Jacket, page [3].