African Americans on the Frontier: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories - Couverture rigide

Govenar, Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0874368677 ISBN 13 : 9780874368673

Editeur : ABC-CLIO, 2000

Synopsis

A collection of first hand narratives and oral histories portraying the African American experience from slavery through emancipation and into the 20th century.

African American Frontiers concentrates on the period from 1703, the date of the first published narrative of an African slave's attainment of freedom in the American colonies, to 1948, the year in which President Harry S. Truman integrated the United States armed forces through Executive Order 9981.

This book is an invaluable historical resource that brings together diverse first-person accounts of individual African Americans through primary source documents, including: Henry Box Brown, who escaped the South by express mailing himself to Philadelphia in a wooden crate; Herb Jeffries, who introduced the black cowboy in Westerns; and Eunice Jackson, whose funeral home was destroyed in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Such little known stories, most of them previously unpublished, resonate with the determination, forbearance, moral strength, and imagination of the tellers, and give readers an opportunity to see the world as it once was, as told by the men and women who lived in it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Govenar, PhD, is founder and president of Documentary Arts and is a writer, folklorist, filmmaker, and photographer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ABC-CLIO
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874368677
• ISBN 13: 9780874368673
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 551
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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