"As French and American historians of France are revisiting the history of French racism today, William B. Cohen s book is more important than ever. It has become a classic." Nancy L. Green
In this pioneering work, William B. Cohen traces the ways in which negative attitudes toward blacks became deeply embedded in French culture. Examining the forces that shaped these views, Cohen reveals the persistent inequality of French interactions with blacks in Africa, in the slave colonies of the West Indies, and in France itself. Now a classic, The French Encounter with Africans is essential...
"As French and American historians of France are revisiting the history of French racism today, William B. Cohen s book is more important than ever...
Even after the Civil War, blacks despaired of being treated as equals in a white man's world. They were deprived of many of the most basic rights of citizenship, and were often cheated and exploited. As result they clung tenaciously to that most important of new rights -- the right to move.
At Freedom's Edge is William Cohen's comprehensive history of black mobility fro the Civil War to World War I. Cohen treats mobility as a central component of black freedom, crucial in the emergence of a free labor system, and equally crucial as an obstacle to the persistent southern white effort to...
Even after the Civil War, blacks despaired of being treated as equals in a white man's world. They were deprived of many of the most basic rights o...
