Demonstrates that the emancipation generation bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping religious, educational, and cultural institutions as well as labor and political organizations. Peter Rachleff, editor of Starving Amidst Too Much and Other IWW Writings on the Food Industry Shows how far off the mark arguments are that claim that black Americans generally have internalized inferiority and engage in self-defeating behaviors. William A. Darity Jr., coeditor of Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of...
Demonstrates that the emancipation generation bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping religious...
Looks beyond slavery's legacy of racial and economic inequality and counters the idea that slaves were unprepared for freedom. By examining African American social and intellectual thought, Lynda Morgan highlights how slaves built an ethos of ""honest labour"" and collective humanism.
Looks beyond slavery's legacy of racial and economic inequality and counters the idea that slaves were unprepared for freedom. By examining African Am...
