This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally free society perverted its own freedoms and denied the fact that an inhuman institution lies at the heart of the American experience. The authority and eloquence of this work make it essential reading for all who want to understand the American past and present.
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"Nowhere are the psychological dynamics of this ordeal and triumph more clearly, gracefully, or economically set forth."
-- Willie Lee Rose, The New York Review of Books
"Black Odyssey is a masterful work, at once poetic and instructive. His is an enduring contribution to the study of American history. This book deserves the widest readership." -- Herbert G. Gutman
"A thoughtful and thought-provoking book...written with feeling." -- Oscar Handlin
"The classic on the subject for a long time to come....The general reader, for whom the work is written, will simply be enthralled." -- The New Yorker
-- Willie Lee Rose, The New York Review of Books
"Black Odyssey is a masterful work, at once poetic and instructive. His is an enduring contribution to the study of American history. This book deserves the widest readership." -- Herbert G. Gutman
"A thoughtful and thought-provoking book...written with feeling." -- Oscar Handlin
"The classic on the subject for a long time to come....The general reader, for whom the work is written, will simply be enthralled." -- The New Yorker
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This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally free society perverted its own freedoms and denied the fact that an inhuman institution lies at the heart of the American experience. The authority and eloquence of this work make it essential reading for all who want to understand the American past and present.
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THE AFRICANS who were to become Americans came from a region of West Africa that fanned from its westernmost tip, around the Senegal River, south and east, along the Bight of Benin, and south again below the Congo River to include a region we now call Angola. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
deforming mirror, slave personality, racial slavery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nat Turner, United States, New England, South Carolina, Upper South, Denmark Vesey, Civil War, Deep South, New York, West Indies, Gabriel Prosser, New Orleans, West Africa, Thomas Jefferson, Continental Army, George Washington, Samuel Sewall, Spanish Florida New!
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THE AFRICANS who were to become Americans came from a region of West Africa that fanned from its westernmost tip, around the Senegal River, south and east, along the Bight of Benin, and south again below the Congo River to include a region we now call Angola. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
deforming mirror, slave personality, racial slavery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nat Turner, United States, New England, South Carolina, Upper South, Denmark Vesey, Civil War, Deep South, New York, West Indies, Gabriel Prosser, New Orleans, West Africa, Thomas Jefferson, Continental Army, George Washington, Samuel Sewall, Spanish Florida New!
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- The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp on 6 pages
- South Carolina (Gousha Fastmap) by Don Wood on 5 pages
- White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) by Winthrop D. Jordan in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglas (Library of American Biography Series) by Nathan Irvin Huggins in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Black History and Black Identity: A Call for a New Historiography by W. D. Wright on 6 pages
- Radical History Review: Volume 55 by Molly McGarry on 6 pages
- Radical History Review: Volume 49 (v. 49) on 5 pages
- History and Memory in African-American Culture by Geneviï¿1/2ve Fabre on 4 pages
- Racism Matters by William D. Wright in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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