Flags that represented the Southern nation between 1861 and 1865 and the history of national; state; and military flags.
#4289066 in Books Markus Wiener Pub 1988-02Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.25 x 5.50 x .50l; .0 #File Name: 0910129878172 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Let the Previously Unheard People SpeakBy Gimme Good ReadsThis is an amazing and unusual book. There are not nearly enough situations in which the actual words of enslaved African-Americans survived; this is one. They deserve our attention. It's heart-breaking; but allowing them to speak into our lives is redemptive.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The personal pain of slavery.By Kevin M QuiggStarobin takes a collection of letters and places them in book form to show the inhumanity of slavery. Along with these letters; are short bits of history about slave families; the desire for liberty; emigration to Liberia; and slave insurrections. Even though Starobin is a Marxist; this book shows the true nature of slavery and how it undermined both the slave masters and those in bondage.This book is very difficult to read; since most people in bondage were prevented from learning how to read and write. The letters in the book are very difficult to read. This is no fault of Starobin; he wants the reader to draw his own opinions.However; one can see the sufferings of those in bondage; and know the inhumanity of slavery. I think this puts to rest people who say slavery benefited the black population by civilizing them. One telling letter was by a freed slave writing to a white pastor and asking why the pastor preached to the white slave holding families and not the poor blacks outside. The slave asks if it was because these white families had money; and the blacks none. This slave had more sense than that pastor.A revealing book about the evils of slavery.
