Witness for freedom
Subtitle: African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation
By: C. Peter Ripley, editor ; co-editors, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone.
Contributors: Ripley, C. Peter, 1941-
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- Sources; Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; African Americans -- History -- To 1863 -- Sources; African American abolitionists -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Description: This documentary history of the African American struggle for freedom and equality collects eighty-nine documents that represent the best of the recently published five-volume Black abolitionist papers. In these texts, African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens, of the battle against colonization and the "back to Africa" movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289) and index.