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Summary: Four great migrations frame the history of people of African descent in America, setting the paths by which Africans and then African Americans made and remade black life between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Those four massive upheavals form the foundation of Ira Berlin's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 BERSummary: Live recordings and dramatic readings of interviews with former slaves. The original recordings were made by interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project in the early 1930s and placed in the Library of Congress. They have now been re-mastered and made available to the American public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 remContents: A world of possibilities : slavery and freedom in Dutch New Amsterdam / Christopher Moore -- The tightening vise : slavery and freedom in British New York / Jill Lepore -- Liberty and constraint : the limits of revolution / Graham Russell Gao Hodges -- The long death of slavery / Patrick Rael -- Black life in freedom : creating a popular culture / Shane White -- Black life in freedom : creating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2005