Rabu, 07 Juni 2017

American History Book Review: Envisioning Emancipation

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer (Temple) What did freedom look like? In this photographic history, published on the Emancipation Proclamation’s 150th anniversary, it looked like abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, and the proud black soldiers who fought for the Union cause. It also looked …

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