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Title: From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss ISBN: 0-375-40671-9 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 14 March, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Good for high school students, bad for experienced thinkers.
Comment: I returned this book. However, I am a voracious reader of history and appreciate specifically history that is framed to present periods and events with meaning and drama. Great writers of history can capture these elements in the topcs they cover via a combination of skill, enthusiasm and knowledge. This book does not rise to that level. Perhaps the authors did not intend it to.
Good book for a basic introduction to Black folks' history but not sufficient to satisfy the appetites of experienced, critical lay-thinkers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Franklin, one of America's Greatest Historians
Comment: This book is the product of outstanding research produced by an internationally recognized historian, John Hope Franklin. Don't believe me and the other reviewers? Act like a historian and check out Duke University's website; read reviews of Franklin's work in the major journals of professional historians; and do this with an open mind, while trying to discover and weigh in against your own biases. The history of African Americans in the United States simply can't be told without discussing racism as a structure that many white people built through law, social segregation, economic practices, intimidation, and accepting the privileges of "the way things were done." _If_ you do _not_ want to learn about America in this light, if you want to close your mind to reality, do not read this book. But even if the idea of facing these ugly truths may tug at your soul a bit, there is so much more in this book. In a very readable, comprehensive, illustrated work, you can learn about men and women who worked, wrote, taught, served, healed, created, protested, died, dreamed, played, and were just human in every other imaginable way in America. If this is what you are looking for, read on.
Rating: 1
Summary: Oh, Please
Comment: This book should have been in the Fantasy section. Franklin wrote this book without much research or he belongs to the revisionist history class. Take away his false statements and attempt at reaching "white guilt" and this book would have been about ten pages long.
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Title: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois ISBN: 0486280411 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington ISBN: 0486287386 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing by Deirdre Mullane ISBN: 0385422431 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin ISBN: 0674002113 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 04 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Succeeding Against The Odds by John H. Johnson ISBN: 1567430023 Publisher: Amistad Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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