Children of Fire: A History of African Americans

by Thomas C. Holt

Book Overview

Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always treat them separately? In this groundbreaking new book, renowned historian Thomas C. Holt challenges this form to tell the story of generations of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809034174
• ISBN13: 9780809034178
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"