Tyler Stovall speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his Cundill History Prize-shortlisted book White Freedom, which explores how European and American ideas about ‘liberty’ and ‘freedom’ have been underpinned by racism since the Enlightenment.

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Tyler Stovall is the author of White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea (Princeton, 2021)

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