Jubilee
Howard Dodson
/ Schomberg Lib. Harlem
$35.00 / Hardcover / NOW $19.95
0-7922-6982-9
National Geographic
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The Emergence of African-American Culture
Jubilee provides a clear-eyes chronicle of slavery and its enormous
effect on out nation's history and economy, tracing the origin and
development of the slave trade and the realities of life for Africans -
slaves, runaways, and freedom alike - in pre-Civil War America. The book
also illustrates how the conditions of the "peculiar institution" were
transformed into a vibrant, distinctively African-American culture, a
complex and fascinating process of social, cultural, political, and economic
change that embraces everything from language and religion to family life
and self-expression. This stunning lesson in human adaptability shows how
men and women with no rights - and often not even a language in common -
nevertheless formed strong communities, melded African beliefs with
Christianity to create a new, comforting, and joyous religious tradition,
and survived deliberately dehumanizing oppression without ever surrendering
their individuality.
