To be Free

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TO BE FREE
By HERBERT APTHEKER
"The Negro's past," writes Herbert Ap-theker in his introduction to this book, "runs through the warp and woof of the fabric that is America. This path has been clouded and obscure by distortion, omission, and, at times, by sanctimonious, patronizing sen-timentality. Denying the American Negro people a past worthy of serious study and émulation weakens their fight for equality and freedom."
A major contribution ín the field of Negro history, this book helps to restore the Negro's past—the Negro's part in the whole American past—to its rightful place. The pre-Civil War chapters deal with slave guerrilla warfare, and the enumerable efforts of slaves to buy their freedom. The section on Militant Abolitionism throws new life on the entire crusade against slavery and reveals a hitherto neglected portion of America's revolutionary tradition. The two chapters on the Civil War discuss, for the first time, the important role of the Negro in the Union Navy,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TO BE FREE
By HERBERT APTHEKER
"The Negro's past," writes Herbert Ap-theker in his introduction to this book, "runs through the warp and woof of the fabric that is America. This path has been clouded and obscure by distortion, omission, and, at times, by sanctimonious, patronizing sen-timentality. Denying the American Negro people a past worthy of serious study and émulation weakens their fight for equality and freedom."
A major contribution ín the field of Negro history, this book helps to restore the Negro's past—the Negro's part in the whole American past—to its rightful place. The pre-Civil War chapters deal with slave guerrilla warfare, and the enumerable efforts of slaves to buy their freedom. The section on Militant Abolitionism throws new life on the entire crusade against slavery and reveals a hitherto neglected portion of America's revolutionary tradition. The two chapters on the Civil War discuss, for the first time, the important role of the Negro in the Union Navy, as well as the whole story of casualties endured by Negroes in helping to defeat the Confederacy.
The Reconstruction period is dealt with in a chapter on the organizational activities of Southern Negroes in 1865 and in the climactic chapter of the book, "Mississippi Reconstruction and the Negro Leader. Charles Caldwell," a deeply moving human story.
Meticulously documented, rich with com-pletely unknown material, To Be F ree car-ries on and extends the work done by the author in his previous books, Essays in the History of the American Negro and American Negro Slave Revolts. Vissza