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Dealer of Old Clothes

Dealer of Old Clothes

A Dealer of Old Clothes

Darryl Scriven

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Editorial:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2007
Materia
Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9780739120668

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A Dealer of Old Clothes treats David Walker, an early nineteenth-century abolitionist, as a philosophical sage. In this text, Scriven poses philosophical questions to Walker via his Appeal and solicits philosophical answers on topics such as race, emancipatory struggle, and the problem of evil.

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