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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In the midst of his research on labor history, Cornell University historian Salvatore (Eugene V. Debs) accidentally came upon the nine-volume journals of a factory worker named Amos Webber (1826- 1904), an activist in the black communities of Philadelphia and Worcester, Mass. Salvatore makes a yeoman's effort to flesh out citations and contextualize Webber's life, but unfortunately Webber's circumspect writings can't support a fully vitalized portrait of his experiences, motives and passions. Salvatore describes the violence Webber faced in early 19th-century Philadelphia, his role in fraternal organizations like the Odd Fellow and his apparent aid to abolitionists. Webber volunteered for the segregated Massachusetts cavalry and suffered numerous slights, but he took from it sense of the promise of American citizenship?fuel for his moral efforts in the lodge and church to seek equal rights for blacks. Illustrations.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Following his Bancroft and Dunning prize-winning biography of socialist labor leader Eugene V. Debs (Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist, Univ. of Illinois, 1982), historian Salvatore offers a life-and-times biography of a previously unknown black activist named Amos Webber (1826-1904), who lived mostly in Philadelphia and Worcester, Massachusetts. Working from entries Webber logged in so-called memory books preserved at Harvard, Salvatore has developed connections and contexts to clarify black collective relationships and institutional and social structures of the 1800s. His re-creation illuminates not merely the private and public life of one black man but shadows the African American life as lived day to day in its intricacies, values, and commitments. Recommended for U.S. and black history collections.?Thomas J. Davis, SUNY-Buffalo
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In the midst of his research on labor history, Cornell University historian Salvatore (Eugene V. Debs) accidentally came upon the nine-volume journals of a factory worker named Amos Webber (1826- 1904), an activist in the black communities of Philadelphia and Worcester, Mass. Salvatore makes a yeoman's effort to flesh out citations and contextualize Webber's life, but unfortunately Webber's circumspect writings can't support a fully vitalized portrait of his experiences, motives and passions. Salvatore describes the violence Webber faced in early 19th-century Philadelphia, his role in fraternal organizations like the Odd Fellow and his apparent aid to abolitionists. Webber volunteered for the segregated Massachusetts cavalry and suffered numerous slights, but he took from it sense of the promise of American citizenship?fuel for his moral efforts in the lodge and church to seek equal rights for blacks. Illustrations.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Following his Bancroft and Dunning prize-winning biography of socialist labor leader Eugene V. Debs (Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist, Univ. of Illinois, 1982), historian Salvatore offers a life-and-times biography of a previously unknown black activist named Amos Webber (1826-1904), who lived mostly in Philadelphia and Worcester, Massachusetts. Working from entries Webber logged in so-called memory books preserved at Harvard, Salvatore has developed connections and contexts to clarify black collective relationships and institutional and social structures of the 1800s. His re-creation illuminates not merely the private and public life of one black man but shadows the African American life as lived day to day in its intricacies, values, and commitments. Recommended for U.S. and black history collections.?Thomas J. Davis, SUNY-Buffalo
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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