"A truly invaluable collocation of documents. Highly Recommended."--Choice "Brilliantly conceptualized, exhaustively researched, and eloquently written, it is a gold mine for anyone interested in America's ongoing dilemma with slavery and race."--John Stauffer, author of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln "This stunning and magisterial documentary history accumulates and analyzes much evidence never before considered adequately, if at all. The work of fifteen years by assiduous senior historians of slave rebellions, it not only considers the...
"A truly invaluable collocation of documents. Highly Recommended."--Choice "Brilliantly conceptualized, exhaustively researched, and eloquently...
"Offers a new interpretation of the war on poverty by demonstrating the centrality of moderate local leadership (both white and black) in launching and operating antipoverty programs."--Marisa Chappell, author of The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America "Hawkins has done a remarkable job of mining the sources and reconstructing the reality of what was going on in eastern North Carolina."--Frank Stricker, author of Why America Lost the War on Poverty--And How to Win It While many scholars have argued that confrontation and protest were the most effective ways for the...
"Offers a new interpretation of the war on poverty by demonstrating the centrality of moderate local leadership (both white and black) in launching an...
Introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different ""spaces of freedom"" that fugitive slaves inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the US South, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different ""spaces of freedom"" that fugitive slaves inhabited. It also pr...
Celebrates the work of one of America's most influential journalists who wrote in a time and place of dramatic social and political upheaval. The editor of the Atlanta Constitution from 1960 to 1968, Patterson wrote directly to his fellow white southerners every day, working to persuade them to change their ways.
Celebrates the work of one of America's most influential journalists who wrote in a time and place of dramatic social and political upheaval. The edit...
Introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different 'spaces of freedom' that fugitive slaves inhabited. The book provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the US South, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different 'spaces of freedom' that fugitive slaves inhabited. The book pro...
