Feb. 18, 2008

ISSUE VIII

Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation (Hardcover) by Julie Roy Jeffrey (Author)Julie Roy Jeffrey is professor of American history at Goucher College

Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (Hardcover) by Cedric Johnson (Author) Cedric Johnson is assistant professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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In the 1830s the abolitionist movement --- a movement that had been part of the American experience since colonial times --- took on a stronger and louder voice. Its speakers were more urgent, more militant, and more radical. They used a logic intrinsically tied to the very bedrock of American democracy: that "all men are created equal" by "their Creator," and that this God-given equality entitles each person the right to be free from prejudice, exclusion and oppression. ...(Read More)

Breeding a Nation: Reproductive Slavery, the Thirteenth Amendment, And the Pursuit of Freedom (Paperback) by Pamela D. Bridgewater (Author)

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (Hardcover) by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (Author)

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time (Hardcover) by Melvyn Stokes (Author)

All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Martha S. Jones

African American Feminisms 18281923 (History of Feminism) (Hardcover) by Zackodnik (Author)

International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School (Hardcover) by Dennis Thiessen (Editor), Alison Cook-Sather (Editor)

Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Laurie B. Green (Author)

American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta (Hardcover) by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff (Author

Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic (Hardcover) by James Sidbury (Author)

Love and Marriage in Early African America (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) (Paperback) by Frances Foster (Editor)

The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene (New Black Studies Series) (Paperback) by Pero Dagbovie (Author)

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