While Statues Sleep
Thomas Laqueur, 18 June 2020
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman.
Allen Lane, 415 pp., £20, August 2019,978 0 241 26286 3 Show More
by Susan Neiman.
Allen Lane, 415 pp., £20, August 2019,
“... Henry A. Wise, a Southern member of Congress and a future Confederate general, called John Quincy Adams ‘the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of Southern slavery that ever existed’. Adams would have subscribed to the view that ‘all men are created equal’ – but, as ... ”