Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery

by Nathan Irvin Huggins

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This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally free society perverted its own freedoms and denied the fact that an inhuman institution lies...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0679728147

ISBN13:9780679728146

Release Date:September 1990

Publisher:Knopf Publishing Group

Length:336 Pages

Weight:0.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Related Subjects

Abolition African-American Studies Americas Education & Reference History Humanities Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Slavery & Emancipation Social Science Social Sciences Sociology Specific Demographics Textbooks World

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