Witness for Freedom
Subtitle: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation
Contributors: C. Peter Ripley (Editor); Michael F. Hembree (Contributor)
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Published: February 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780807820728
Subjects: Black studies; Slavery & emancipation; Sociology; Black American Sociology; Slavery; To 1863; History: American; North America; General; United States - Civil War; 19th century; Sources; United States; Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery movements; History
First sentence: The African American struggle to claim the United States as a homeland gave rise to the black abolitionist movement.