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African-American Activism before the Civil War

African-American Activism before the Civil War

Patrick Rael

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2008
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Historia
ISBN:
9780415957267
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African-American Activism before the Civil War is the first collection of scholarship on the role of African Americans in the struggle for racial equality in the northern states before the Civil War. Here, in one place for the first time, anchored by a comprehensive, analytical introduction discussing the historiography of antebellum black activism, the best scholarship on this crucial group of African American activists can finally be studied together.

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