From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
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The eighth edition of this best selling text has been thoroughly revised to include expanded material on the slave resistance, the recent history of African Americans in the United States, more on the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0072295813
ISBN13:9780072295818
Release Date:January 2000
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Companies
Length:742 Pages
Weight:2.46 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 7.0" x 9.4"
Customer Reviews
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Eye opening reading!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
All I can say is Thank you for allowing me into an unknown world that had been hidden (for those not living with or among those who dealt with such tragedy) I am very thankful for all the hard work that went into creating this book as well as the information I am gleaming! I am able to expand my knowledge base and speak with authority. I am in an interracial marriage & for me this book is invaluable!
FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
THIS WAS IN BETTER CONDITIONS THAN WHAT I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. IT WAS WELL WORTH IT. IT JUST FELT FOREVER TO GET IT, PROBABLY SINCE I NEEDED IT.
Brilliant scholarly work
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Dr. Franklin is one of the greatest historians this country has ever produced. He holds degrees from Fisk and Harvard (two post graduate degrees from Cambridge). He has more honorary degrees than Carter has little pills (or I guess now, peanuts). This work, now in its eighth printing, is perhaps the greatest single reference work exploring the African American experience and the contributions of this race to American history, and has been so since the first edition was printed in 1947. He starts by revealing more knowledge that most people ever fathomed about the African experience in the pre-slavery centuries, with the greatness that was the African continent in Ghana, Songhay and the rest of Africa. The exploration of the "peculiar institution" of slavery, reconstruction and the post Civil War hope is complete and brilliantly done. The chapters on the Harlem Renaissance and the first half of the twentieth century alone is worth the price of the book. Extraordinarily well researched. It is scholarly but never dry. It is objective, but never loses the passion for the subject. A must for any complete understanding of our history.
Great Book on the History of African-Americans
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book brought into life the history of a group of Americans that has been long neglected, in the standard American textbooks. This book was easy to read and follows the course of American history, from discovery to the Clinton presidency. A must for all persons who are interested in history. Not just African-American history, but American history. Get it, it is worth having, if you call yourself an historian.
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