Force, Religion, and the Quest for African American Justice: A Study of the Black Just War Tradition

This study argues that Black calls for force in the struggle against white supremacy have echoed concepts and principles in the Western just war tradition.

After establishing that just war theory has ignored Black calls for force and that the Trans—Atlantic Slave Trade relied on just war ethics for its justification, this book turns to African American resistance rhetoric in three crucial periods of U.S. history. In the antebellum period, the Civil Rights movement, and the era of mass incarc...