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Slavery And the Making of America

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OXFORD University Press, 2006 - History - 254 pages
The history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it largely through stories of the slaves themselves.
Readers will discover a wide ranging and sharply nuanced look at American slavery, from the first Africans brought to British colonies in the early seventeenth century to the end of Reconstruction. The authors document the horrors of slavery, particularly in the deep South, and describe the slaves' valiant struggles to free themselves from bondage. There are dramatic tales of escape by slaves such as William and Ellen Craft and Dred Scott's doomed attempt to win his freedom through the Supreme Court. We see how slavery engendered violence in our nation, from bloody confrontations that broke out in American cities over fugitive slaves, to the cataclysm of the Civil War. The book is also filled with stories of remarkable African Americans like Sergeant William H. Carney, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery at the crucial assault on Fort Wagner during the Civil War, and Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, a former slave who led freed African Americans to a new life on the American frontier. Filled with absorbing and inspirational accounts highlighted by more than one hundred pictures and illustrations, Slavery and the Making of America is a gripping account of the struggles of African Americans against the iniquity of slavery.

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I didn't read all of the book, but I did watch all four hours of the pbs special. Very informative about individule black men and women through out American History. Some nudity in the art work they use.

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User Review  - Jen Janik - Goodreads

I read this book for my grad school class about American Slavery. I very much enjoyed it as it is a concise history of the colonial period through Reconstruction and it does so in a way that is easy ... Read full review

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About the author (2006)


James Oliver Horton is the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies & History at George Washington University, and Historian Emeritus at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Lois E. Horton is a Professor of History at George Mason University. They are the authors of such classic studies as Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860, and Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America.

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TitleSlavery And the Making of America
AuthorsJames Oliver Horton, Lois E.. Horton
Editionillustrated
PublisherOXFORD University Press, 2006
ISBN0195304519, 9780195304510
Length254 pages
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History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History / United States / General
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Social Science / Slavery
  
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