Encompassing a broad range of African American voices; from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves; this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens; of the battle against colonization and the "back to Africa" movement; and of their troubled relationship with the federal government.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Good work; but not entirely convincingBy CRMapp's work is useful in drawing attention to the role of the "elusive west" in European thinking at the time of the Seven Years' War. In actuality; as his own footnotes somewhat reveal; the importance of the west among European explorers and leaders is not new to his work. His chief contribution is to show how that illusion shaped the decisions of the French. I'm not convinced that Mapp has correctly interpreted the reason for the French action of passing New Orleans on to Spain. He is certainly off-base in faulting a young George Washington for not going far enough west (!) and in minimizing the role of the Ohio Valley in the war. The history shows what dominated British policy in the west following the war and it wasn't about Mexico or the Pacific Northwest. Although Mapp's focus is on this war; it is surprising that (as a history professor in a major Virginia college); he nowhere notes the early history of the elusive west in the thinking of Virginians from Governor Berkeley to the explorers of the Trans-Allegheny region (e.g. Batts; Fallan; Lederer; and others). It is most unfortunate that he approves uncritically Higonnet's misleadinganalysis of the sequence of the events leading to the war; which was not the result of the cupidity of British governors; but of the way in which British officials in London and French officials in Paris perceived each others' global ambitions and especially their American territorial claims. Apparently; the author has not studied T.R. Clayton's refutation (1981) of Higonnet's misunderstandings or he would not think the latter offered "the best analysis" of these prliminary events. In his "Crucible of War;" Fred Anderson and Daniel Baugh in his "Global Seven Years' War" more perceptively followed Clayton. At the same time; these short comings do not detract from the Mapp's contribution. No one can fault Mapp's scholarship and the brilliant way in which he presents his case. Nor could an author want a better production of his/her work than that produced here by the University of North Carolina Press.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The book is very good for the understanding the global process in XVIII centuryBy Mary Anne JunqueiraI am a brazilian historien. The book is very good for the understanding the global process in XVIII century.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy Alfonso Qui�ones Seguragood book.
