Jubilee
The Emergence of African-American Culture
by Howard Dodson and others

Description:

A Jubilee is a celebration -- but for African Americans the word has a special meaning, more compelling by far:  the day of freedom. For three centuries of slavery, jubilee was just a dream, a hope, a prayer... But long before Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made it the law of the land, Africans in the Americas had fashioned a culture uniquely their own.

This magnificent book explores every aspect of their legacy, born in sadness and suffering but transformed into both a rich heritage and an influential force is shaping the world's history. Filled with evocative illustrations, photographs, and documents from the archive3s of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and dozens of informative sidebars, as well as an introduction by Wynton Marsalis and essays by such distinguished contributors as Amiri Baraka, Gail Buckley, John Hope Franklin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Annette Gordon-Reed, and Gayraud S. Wilmore, the text chronicles the true nature and impact of 300 years of slavery on America.

But at the book's heart is the emergence of a unique African-American culture that took root in the arid ground of slavery, nourished by strength, courage, and determination.

Jubilee
The Emergence of African-American Culture
by Howard Dodson and others

ISBN: 9780792269823
ISBN-10: 0792269829
Publisher: Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture (National Geographic)
Publication Date: 2002
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Book Type: New