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The Cause of Freedom - A Concise History of African Americans (Hardcover)
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The Cause of Freedom - A Concise History of African Americans (Hardcover)
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What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African
American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this
seemingly simple question. What does it mean to be an American? The
story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of
answering this seemingly simple question. If being "American" means
living in a land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of
those Americans who were enslaved and who have suffered from the
limitations of second-class citizenship throughout their lives?
African American history illuminates the United States' core
paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an
American, a citizen, and a human being. This book considers how,
for centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black
feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called "the cause of
freedom." It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment
of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. It narrates the
creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual
dismantling of that system in the national bloodletting of the
Civil War, and the ways that civil rights disputes have continued
to erupt in the more than 150 years since Emancipation. The Cause
of Freedom carries forward to the Black Lives Matter movement, a
grass-roots activist convulsion that declared that African
Americans' present and past have value and meaning. At a moment
when political debates grapple with the nation's obligation to
acknowledge and perhaps even repair its original sin of racialized
slavery, The Cause of Freedom tells a story about our capacity and
willingness to realize the ideal articulated in the country's
founding document, namely, that all people were created equal.
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