Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.Williams, Heather A., Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005....
Slavery - African, Colonial, Abolition: The origins of slavery are lost to human memory. It is sometimes hypothesized that at some moment it was decided that persons detained for a crime or as a result of warfare would be more useful if put to work in so
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Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement : by Bjrn F. Stillion Southard, Jackson, University of Mississippi Press, 2019, 175 pp., $30.00 (paperback).doi:10.1080/00335630.2020.1863961Carroll, DarrianQuarterly Journal of Speech...
Margaret Walker was an American novelist and poet who was one of the leading black woman writers of the mid-20th century. After graduating from Northwestern University (B.A., 1935), Walker joined the Federal Writers’ Project in Chicago, where she began
Shortly after the American Revolution, calls to abolish slavery and the slave trade generated increasingly widespread support.
This haunting masterpiece shines a light on the dark history of American slavery while celebrating the indomitable will of those who survive it. Released: 2013 Directed by: Steve McQueen Dig Deeper Movies That Won Best Picture at the Oscars and Golden Globes Also ranks #1 on Movies About...
African American literature - New Negro, Harlem Renaissance, Protest Writing: During the first two decades of the 20th century, rampant racial injustices, led by weekly reports of grisly lynchings, gave strong impetus to protest writing. From the editor