From Slavery to Freedom
No Negro artists measured up to the stature of Henry Ossawa Tanner , who was one of the world's outstanding painters ... In the period after World War I Aaron Douglas began to receive recognition for his black - and - white drawings and ...
Traces the history of the African-American people from the Civil War years through the late twentieth century.
The entries in this volume focus upon the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave system in comparative perspective.
The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom.
Lewis Perry and Michael Fellman, 75–95. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook. Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend.
Throughout the book, readers do the work of historians as they dissect primary sources, including slave narratives, runaway ads, and the music that inspired enslaved people.
“Demonstrates that the ‘emancipation generation’ bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping religious, educational, and cultural institutions as well as labor and political ...
Readers for the University of Illinois Press , including Nancy Hewitt , Jacqueline Jones , and , in particular , an anonymous reviewer , were also thoughtful and generous in the substance of their advice and comments .