Freedom Road

by Howard Fast Narrated by Norman Dietz

Overview

It was everywhere. You couldn't talk about the revolution without using the word freedom in the same breath. But Gideon Jackson knew that freedom meant something different if your skin was black. Fast's fictional account of the post Civil War era takes us into the life of Gideon Jackson, a black man, newly freed, and determined to make a difference.

Editorial Reviews

Booknews

This historical novel was first published in 1944, when Reconstruction was popularly viewed as a time of unrelieved political and social sordidness, a time when childlike former slaves fumbled the rights and responsibilities Northerners had thrust upon them. Fast, a white leftist profoundly affected by very different portrait of Reconstruction by the black activist and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, wrote a novel that captured the accomplishments of Reconstruction governments. It also showed the Klan as the violent terrorist group it was--not the patriotic organization that history books of the 1940s would have had it. This edition includes a new introduction by Eric Foner. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171143312
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	05/13/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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