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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1993]
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| Series: | UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | "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."--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 306 pages) : illustrations, portraits. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index. |
