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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

byDavid Hackett Fischer

In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. Using archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, African Founders moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing African Founders within history, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment.

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

956

ISBN

9781982145095