African Americans Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780874368673)

A collection of first hand narratives and oral histories portraying the African American experience from slavery through emancipation and into the 20th century.

African American Frontiers concentrates on the period from 1703, the date of the first published narrative of an African slave's attainment of freedom in the American colonies, to 1948, the year in which President Harry S. Truman integrated the United States armed forces through Executive Order 9981.

This book is an invaluable historical resource that brings together diverse first-person accounts of individual African Americans through primary source documents, including: Henry "Box" Brown, who escaped the South by express mailing himself to Philadelphia in a wooden crate; Herb Jeffries, who introduced the black cowboy in Westerns; and Eunice Jackson, whose funeral home was destroyed in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Such little known stories, most of them previously unpublished, resonate with the determination, forbearance, moral strength, and imagination of the tellers, and give readers an opportunity to see the world as it once was, as told by the men and women who lived in it.

Author: Alan B. Govenar
ISBN-10: 0874368677
ISBN-13: 9780874368673
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 11/21/2000
Pages: 551
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 10.35h x 7.33w x 1.47d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/1999 pg. 763
Booklist 12/15/2000 pg. 797
Booklist 02/15/2001 pg. 1174
Choice 05/01/2001 pg. 1609
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 55
Booklist 06/01/2002 pg. 1760
School Library Journal 05/01/2001