Uniquely inclusive, "African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives" offers a wealth of insights into the way African Americans lived and how slave-era experiences affected their lives afterward. Coverage goes beyond well-known figures to focus on the lives of African American men, women, and children across the nation, battling the oppression and prejudice that didn't stop with emancipation while they tried to establish their place as Americans.
The book ranges from the African origins of African American communities to coverage of slave communities, female...
Uniquely inclusive, "African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives" offers a wealth of insights into the way African America...