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S04E08: HUM 223 Week 6 – Two Manifestos and a Willing Slave: 1848, Marx, Mill, and the Fight Over Who Gets to Be Free
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HUM 223 Week 6 – Two Manifestos and a Willing Slave: 1848, Marx, Mill, and the Fight Over Who Gets to Be Free
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In 1848, two manifestos appeared in the same year: one in a London print shop, one in a small chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. Dr. S tells the story of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' call for revolution, John Stuart Mill's startling argument that men wanted women not as forced slaves but as willing ones, Leopold von Ranke's quest to write history "as it actually was," Ernest Renan's scandalous Life of Jesus, and the Realist novelists who made readers look at the…
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