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African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Combined Volume

2 reviews
Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, ...

Longman, 2004

Survey Text Humanizes African American History
African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Single Volume Edition by Clayborne Carson (Longman) Alternate editions [Volume One Chapters One through Eleven; Volume Two Chapters Eleven Through Twenty-One] Excerpt: Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ...

African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Volume I
Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, ...

Longman, 2004

African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom uses a unique biographical approach to present the history of African Americans as active and thoughtful agents in the construction of their lives and communities. The text places African American lives and stories at the center of the narrative and as the basis of historical analysis. Each chapter opens with a vignette focusing on an individual involved in a dramatic moment or event. Personal ...

Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans, The, Penguin Academic Series, Concise Edition, Combined ...

2 reviews
Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, ...

Longman, 2006

An Awesome Book
I have to review this book! It is a gem. I teach African American Studies at a liberal arts college in NJ and had given up using prepared texts long ago in favor of primary documents and topical books. The publisher sent this book as an exam copy; it languished on my desk for months. I only picked it up - when I finally did - because of authors Nash and Carson, whose work I had read elsewhere and ...

African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Volume II
Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, ...

Longman, 2004

African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom uses a unique biographical approach to present the history of African Americans as active and thoughtful agents in the construction of their lives and communities. The text places African American lives and stories at the center of the narrative and as the basis of historical analysis. Each chapter opens with a vignette focusing on an individual involved in a dramatic moment or event. Personal ...

A Biography of Lillian and George Willoughby
Gregory A./ Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J. (FRW) Barnes

Edwin Mellen Pr, 2007

Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007

Benjamin Coates was one of the best-known white supporters of African colonization in nineteenth-century America. A Quaker businessman from Philadelphia and a sometime officer of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, he was committed to helping black Americans relocate to West Africa. This put him at the center of a discourse with abolitionists at home and abroad, including such leading thinkers as Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, ...

A Biography of Lillian and George Willoughby: Twentieth-century Quaker Peace Activists
Gregory A. Barnes

Edwin Mellen Press, 2007

This work offers an authorized biography of Lillian and George Willoughby, Quaker peace activists who have been at the forefront of many movements over the last century. This work should appeal to scholars interested in the lives of these two individuals, American peace movements, and Quaker studies. A Quaker farm woman and young man raised in the Panama Canal zone joined forces at the University of Iowa in 1939 and set out to make the world ...