Hope Is the First Great Blessing: Africa: Leaves from the African Free School Presentation Book 1812-1826 by Blight, David W. (9780916141219)

Hope Is the First Great Blessing: Africa: Leaves from the African Free School Presentation Book 1812-1826

by Blight, David W.

Paperback - English

Hope is the First Great Blessing: Leaves from the African Free School Presentation Book 1812-1826 reproduces in facsimile over 50 drawings, calligraphic exercises, essays and poems produced by African American children in New York City for presentation to sponsors and friends of their school in lower Manhattan. Introduced by scholars David Blight and James Oliver Horton, with an explanatory essay and illuminating captions by Anna Mae Duane of the University of Connecticut and Thomas Thurston, both affiliated with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History at Yale, Hope is the First Great Blessing illustrates the achievements of these gifted children as they mastered the skills that would enable them to become effective citizens and leaders in a racially divided nation.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0916141217

EAN

9780916141219

Publisher

APPLEWOOD

Publication Date

01 Jan 2008

Pages

Weight (kg)

0.30

Dimensions (cm)

28.0 x 21.6 x 0.7

About Author

David W. Blight received his B.A. from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He is Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He has written FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S CIVIL WAR (1989) and RACE AND REUNION: THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICAN MEMORY, 1863-1915 (2001), which received eight awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and four prizes awarded by the Organization of American Historians. His most rec