Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/gYRCz3 A Dreadful Deceit The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America By: Jacqueline Jones Publisher: Basic Books Print ISBN: 9780465036707, 0465036708 eText ISBN: 9780465069804, 0465069800 Format: PDF Available from $ 12.99 USD SKU 9780465069804 For Sale in US* Only In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color of their skin and the economic injustices they battledyet the former is what defines them in America’s consciousness. In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of these two men and four other African Americans to reveal how the concept of race has obscured the factors that truly divide and unite us. Expansive, visionary, and provocative, A Dreadful Deceit explodes the pernicious fiction that has shaped American history.
