num_pages: 208
description: A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. Each page of the book presents a transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their eighteenth-century ancestors along with commentary from Price that places their accounts into a broader historical context.
language: English
title: First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People
titlecomplete: First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)
genres: History
ratings_count: 23
publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press