Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Perspectives
Author: AHA Perspectives
Author: Subject Guide to Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3054
Book Description
The American Promise: A Concise History, Combined Volume
Author: James L. RoarkPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1457657910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
The American Promise: A Concise History is a brief, inexpensive narrative with a clear political, chronological narrative that makes teaching and learning American history a snap. Streamlined by the authors themselves to create a truly concise book, the fifth edition is nearly 15 percent shorter than the fourth compact edition, yet it includes more primary sources than ever—including a new visual sources feature. It is also enhanced by LearningCurve, our easy-to-assign adaptive learning system that will ensure students come to class prepared.
American Lumberman
Author: American Book Publishing Record
Author: The American Commonwealth
Author: James BryceA Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820
Author: Roger Eliot StoddardPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105221X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
"A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.
American Promise 4th Ed Vol 1 + America Firsthand 8th Ed Vol 1 + Incidents
Author: James A. HenrettaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780312644093
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Word by Word
Author: Christopher HagerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674070828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
One of the cruelest abuses of slavery in America was that slaves were forbidden to read and write. Consigned to illiteracy, they left no records of their thoughts and feelings apart from the few exceptional narratives of Frederick Douglass and others who escaped to the North—or so we have long believed. But as Christopher Hager reveals, a few enslaved African Americans managed to become literate in spite of all prohibitions, and during the halting years of emancipation thousands more seized the chance to learn. The letters and diaries of these novice writers, unpolished and hesitant yet rich with voice, show ordinary black men and women across the South using pen and paper to make sense of their experiences. Through an unprecedented gathering of these forgotten writings—from letters by individuals sold away from their families, to petitions from freedmen in the army to their new leaders, to a New Orleans man’s transcription of the Constitution—Word by Word rewrites the history of emancipation. The idiosyncrasies of these untutored authors, Hager argues, reveal the enormous difficulty of straddling the border between slave and free. These unusual texts, composed by people with a unique perspective on the written word, force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom. For African Americans at the end of slavery, learning to write could be liberating and empowering, but putting their hard-won skill to use often proved arduous and daunting—a portent of the tenuousness of the freedom to come.