Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century (Blacks in the New World) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252062132 ISBN 13: 9780252062131

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1991

Synopsis

Offers profiles of seventeen nineteenth century Black men and women, including Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, and Mary Church Terrell

About this title

Review:

"Fresh scholarly portraits of some of the most influential black figures of the 19th century... An excellent reader for all interested in American History." -- Virginia Quarterly Review. "A remarkable volume that captures that diversity of individual experience, while also stimulating theoretical discussion of black leadership in the nineteenth century." -- David W. Blight, Journal of American History

About the Author:

Leon Litwack is the Morrison Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. The author of North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free State, 1790-1860, he received the Pulitzer Prize in history and the Francis Parkman Prize for Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.August Meier, author of Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 and co-author of Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980, is professor of history at Kent State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0252062132
• ISBN 13: 9780252062131
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Litwack Leon, Meier August