Biography & Autobiography, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, African American & Black, History, United States, 19th Century
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Synopsis
For six decades, betwen 1854 and 1904, Amos Webberr, a black freeman living in the north, recorded his daily experience in diaries. In 1985 Bancroft Prize-winnning historian Nick Salvatore discovered them in a Harvard library. Salvatore has woven Webber's diaries into a landmark biography of an ordinary man pursuing a rich and independent life even as he shrewdly observed the society that freed black people from slavery also banished them to the margins of history. Photos & illus."From the Trade Paperback edition.
Book Details
Published
November 25, 1997
Publisher
Random House Value Publishing
Pages
417
ISBN
9780517197530