African American Voices
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Including more than 70 documents that span the history of slavery in America, African American Voices chronicles the widely varied experience of African American slaves. It presents 250 years of the collective life-cycle of an enslaved people through substantial excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters that document the experience of bondage, and supplies comprehensive introductions and headnotes, a visual history of slavery, and an extensive bibliography.

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Including more than 70 documents that span the history of slavery in America, African American Voices chronicles the widely varied experience of African American slaves. It presents 250 years of the collective life-cycle of an enslaved people through substantial excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters that document the experience of bondage, and supplies comprehensive introductions and headnotes, a visual history of slavery, and an extensive bibliography.
Autorenporträt
Steven Mintz is Professor of History and Director, American Cultures Program, at the University of Houston. His thirteen books include Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (1988; co-authored with Susan Kellogg); and a major interpretation of antebellum reform, Moralists & Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers (1995). His most recent book, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood, received the Association of American Publishers R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Book of 2004; the Organization of American Historians 2004 Merle Curti Award for the best book in social history; and the Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for the best non-fiction book of 2004.
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"African American Voices is a wonderfully conceptualizedcompilation of first hand testimony on a broad range of topicsrelated to American slavery and slave resistance. It is anenormously valuable contribution."
--James Oliver Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor ofAmerican Studies and History at George Washington University andHistorian Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museumof American History, co-author of Slavery and the Making ofAmerica and co-editor of Slavery and Public History: TheTough Stuff of American Memory

"African American Voices represents a remarkablyinformative, deeply moving, very readable collection of key primarydocuments on the history of slavery and freedom, thoughtfullyassembled and skillfully introduced by master historian StevenMintz. ... Highly recommended!"
--James Kirby Martin, Distinguished UniversityProfessor of History, University of Houston, and editor ofOrdinary Courage (3rd edition, 2008)

"Steven Mintz combines a helpful discussion of slavery in thewestern world with a collection of writings by or about AfricanAmericans. This volume will engage the interest of collegestudents."
--Stanley Harrold, South Carolina State University, andco-author (with Darlene Clark Hine and William Hine) of AfricanAmericans: A Concise History (3rd edition)

"[A]n extraordinarily well-crafted tool both in the hands ofacademic teachers and researchers. It sheds a light on allessential aspects of African American history and culture up to theinglorious end of Reconstruction and excels in providing coverageof lesser known facets. With its comprehensive new introduction, italso provides a new perspective on research problems in AfricanAmerican history. ... [A] superb publication."
--Norbert Finzsch, University of Cologne, Germany…mehr