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Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation
This documentary history of the African American struggle for freedom and equality collects eighty-nine documents that represent the best of the recently published five-volume Black abolitionist papers. In these texts, African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1993]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
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This documentary history of the African American struggle for freedom and equality collects eighty-nine documents that represent the best of the recently published five-volume Black abolitionist papers. In these texts, African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens, of the battle against colonization and the "back to Africa" movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government.--From publisher description. |
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xxiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index. |
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0807820725 9780807820728 0807844047 9780807844045 |