We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber (Statue of

We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber (Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Centennial Series (Sle))

Lost for over a hundred years until their rediscovery by Nick Salvatore, Amos Webberâ‚¬s â‚¬Å“Thermometer Booksâ‚¬Â recorded six decades of the daily experiences of a black freeman in nineteenth-century Philadelphia and Worcester, Massachusetts. These diaries form the basis for Salvatoreâ‚¬s vital portrait of an everyday hero who struggled unrelentingly for his people in a land that still considered blacks to be less than human.
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In We All Got History, we see Webber working as a janitor; rescuing fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad; marching triumphantly into Richmond with the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry; and active in the religious and fraternal organizations that became the cement of the African American community. What emerges from this moving history is not only a picture of Webber the man, but also of the vibrant African American culture that nurtured him.

Country	USA
Brand	University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer	University of Illinois Press
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	33 photographs, 5 line drawings
Height	9
Length	6
Weight	1.3007273458
Width	1.3
NumberOfItems	1
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber (Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Centennial Series (Sle))