Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation

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Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation - Ripley, C. Peter
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Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling 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.
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$54.63
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
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Pages
332
Dimensions
6.0 X 8.9 X 0.9 inches | 0.97 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780807844045

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About the Author
C. Peter Ripley, professor of history and black studies at The Florida State University, is editor of the Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation and author of Slaves and Freedmen in Civil War Louisiana.
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A critical source.

"Washington Post Book World"
A fitting finale to a remarkable scholarly undertaking.

"Journal of Southern History"
"C. Peter Ripley has made a major contribution to our understanding of antebellum reform.

Eric Foner, Columbia University"
"Provides the best entry point to understand the full complexity of Afro-American life in the North.

Ira Berlin, University of Maryland at College Park"
"A judicious and extremely useful selection of documents from one of the most important publishing projects of our time.

David Brion Davis, Yale Univeristy"
C. Peter Ripley has made a major contribution to our understanding of antebellum reform.

Eric Foner, Columbia University
Provides the best entry point to understand the full complexity of Afro-American life in the North.

Ira Berlin, University of Maryland at College Park
A judicious and extremely useful selection of documents from one of the most important publishing projects of our time.

David Brion Davis, Yale Univeristy

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