Criticism of the Western Civilization - Collection 15 (Slavery revisited)

Criticism of the Western Civilization - Collection 15 (Slavery revisited):

The news outlets on the internet reported yesterday a story about Richard Cebull, the Montana's chief federal judge, who admitted that he forwarded an email comparing African-Americans to dogs and implying that President Barack Obama's mother had sex with animals.

Richard Cebull's email, obtained by the Great Falls Tribune, reads: "Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine."

A joke then follows: "A little boy said to his mother; 'Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?' His mother replied, 'Don't even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you're lucky you don't bark!'"

Cebull forwarded the offensive email from his official court account to six "old buddies," who then forwarded it to others.

Interestingly, the news piece continued and mentioned that this is not the first instance of an official coming under fire for sending a racist Obama email. In April 2011, an Orange County GOP official sent out an email with a photo of Obama's face superimposed on the body of a baby chimpanzee.

We have 22 titles in this upload about the subject of Slavery. Most of these titles were written in recent years. This reflects the continuing interest in the subject and indicates that the consequences of slavery still affect the lives of people in the West.

da Costa - Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood; the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 (1994)

Drescher - Abolition; a History of Slavery and Antislavery (2009)

Fogel - Without Consent or Contract; the Rise and Fall of American Slavery (1989)

Genovese - The Political Economy of Slavery; Studies in the Economy & Society of the Slave South (1989)

Graeber - Lost People; Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar (2007)

Greene - West African Narratives of Slavery; Texts from Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Ghana (2011)

Hahn - The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (2009)

Heuman & Burnard (Eds.) - The Routledge History of Slavery (2011)

Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Witten by Herself (1861)

Kaye - Joining Places; Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (2007)

Lee - The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel (2010)

Litwack - Been in the Storm so Long; the Aftermath of Slavery (1979)

Miller - Way of Death; Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830 (1988)

Rawley - The Transatlantic Slave Trade; a History, revised ed. (2005)

Ray - Horrors of Slavery, or, the American Tars in Tripoli (2008)

Reinhardt - Claims to Memory; Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean (2006)

Sala-Molins - Dark Side of the Light; Slavery and the French Enlightenment (2006)

Stinchcombe - Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment (1995)

Van Cleve - A Slaveholders’ Union; Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic (2010)

Walters - At Home in Diaspora (2005)

Wanzo - The Suffering will not be Televised; African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling (2009)

Wood - Slavery, Empathy and Pornography (2002)