{"product_id":"african-americans-frontiers-alan-b-govenar-9780874368673","title":"African Americans Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of first hand narratives and oral histories portraying the African American experience from slavery through emancipation and into the 20th century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfrican American Frontiers\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 Such little known stories, most of them previously unpublished, resonate with the determination, forbearance, moral strength, and imagination of the tellers, and give readers an opportunity to see the world as it once was,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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan B. Govenar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0874368677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780874368673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ABC-CLIO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.35h x 7.33w x 1.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/1999 pg. 763\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2000 pg. 797\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2001 pg. 1174\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2001 pg. 1609\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2001 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2002 pg. 1760\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2001","brand":"Alan B. Govenar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46140696232191,"sku":"9780874368673","price":91.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_408680d6-7686-4617-8fc8-a3b51173893b.jpg?v=1726596773","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/african-americans-frontiers-alan-b-govenar-9780874368673","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}