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000435851 1001_ $$aHolt, Thomas C.$$q(Thomas Cleveland),$$d1942-
000435851 24510 $$aChildren of fire :$$ba history of African Americans /$$cThomas C. Holt.
000435851 2463_ $$aHistory of African Americans
000435851 250__ $$a1st ed.
000435851 260__ $$aNew York, NY :$$bHill and Wang,$$c2010.
000435851 300__ $$axvii, 438 p., [8] p, of plates :$$bill., maps ;$$c24 cm.
000435851 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000435851 50500 $$tList of illustrations --$$tPreface --$$t1:  Middle passages, middlemen : Europe, Africa, America, and the slave trade --$$t2:  Many thousands born: the roots of African America --$$t3:  Slaves and citizens:  African America in the age of Revolution --$$t4:  New birth of freedom:  the destruction of slavery and Reconstruction of Black life --$$t5:  Ragtime:  race and nation at the dawn of the twentieth century --$$t6:  Second emancipation:  the great migrations of the twentieth century --$$t7:  Second Reconstruction:  the freedom movement --$$t8:  Citizens of the nation, citizens of the world:  African America in the twenty-first century --$$tNotes --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIndex.
000435851 520__ $$aSynopsis: Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always treat them separately? In this groundbreaking new book, renowned historian Thomas C. Holt challenges this form to tell the story of generations of African Americans through the lived experience of the subjects themselves, with all of the nuances, ironies, contradictions, and complexities one might expect. Building on seminal books like John Hope Franklin's From Slavery to Freedom and many others, Holt captures the entire African American experience from the moment the first twenty African slaves were sold at Jamestown in 1619. Each chapter focuses on a generation of individuals who shaped the course of American history, hoping for a better life for their children but often confronting the ebb and flow of their civil rights and status within society. Many familiar faces grace these pages - Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, and Barack Obama - but also some overlooked ones. Figures like Anthony Johnson, a slave who bought his freedom in late seventeenth century Virginia and built a sizable plantation, only to have it stolen away from his children by an increasingly racist court system. Or Frank Moore, a WWI veteran and sharecropper who sued his landlord for unfair practices, but found himself charged with murder after fighting off an angry white posse. Taken together, their stories tell how African Americans fashioned a culture and identity amid the turmoil of four centuries of American history.
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