Witness for Freedom African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation

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-volumeBlack 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.Ripley, C. Peter is the author of 'Witness for Freedom African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation', published 1993 under ISBN 9780807844045 and ISBN 0807844047.