Title: The story of American freedom
First published: 1994
Description: Over the course of our history, freedom has been a living truth for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. In Eric Foner's stirring history, freedom's story is not the simple unfolding of a timeless truth, but an open-ended history of accomplishment and failure. Its impetus lies in the aspirations and sacrifice of millions of Americans, celebrated and anonymous, who have sought freedom's blessings. Its meaning is shaped not only in congressional debates and political treatises, but on plantations and picket lines, in parlors and bedrooms. Its cast of characters ranges from Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan, from former slaves seeking to breathe real meaning into emancipation to the union organizers, freedom riders, and women's rights advocates of our time. - Jacket flap.
Subjects: Human rights, Democracy, Civil rights, Slavery, Liberty, History, United states, history, Civil rights, united states, Human rights, united states, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
Places: United States
LC classification: E179 .F69 1998