Jubilee
Subtitle: the emergence of African-American culture
By: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library ; [text] by Howard Dodson ; with Amiri Baraka ... [et al.].
Contributors: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: African Americans -- History.; African Americans -- Social life and customs.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; Blacks -- America -- History.; Blacks -- America -- Social life and customs.; Blacks -- America -- Intellectual life.; United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.; America -- Civilization -- African influences.
Description: "Jubilee provides a clear-eyed chronicle of slavery and its enormous effect on our nation's history and economy, tracing the origin and development of the slave trade and the realities of life for Africans - slaves, runaways, and freedmen alike - in pre-Civil War America.

The book also illustrates how the conditions of the "peculiar institution" were transformed into a vibrant, distinctively African-American culture, a complex and fascinating process of social, cultural, political, and economic change that embraces everything from language and religion to family life and self-expression.

This stunning lesson in human adaptability shows how men and women with no rights - and often not even a language in common - nevertheless formed strong communities, melded African beliefs with Christianity to create a new, comforting, and joyous religious tradition, and survived deliberately dehumanizing oppression without ever surrendering their individuality."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-219) and index.