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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
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From the esteemed author of Paul Revere's Ride and Champlain's Dream, African Founders is a work of extraordinary scope, a nuanced, layered exploration of history and culture, of the invention of racism, and the impacts of African cultures on the early nation.
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.
African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Afri...
African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Afri...
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