African Americans Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories

by Alan B. Govenar and Alan Govenar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874368677
• ISBN13: 9780874368673
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 551 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 10.3"