Bøger af C. Peter Ripley

A sympathetic, street-level pilgrimage through a revolutionary society in transition, recounting the author's six trips to Cuba between 1991 and 1999, and his attachment to the country. This paperback edition is updated with an epilogue that details Ripley's seventh trip to Cuba in July 2000.

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 "e;back to Africa"e; movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government.