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9780252074400 Academic Inspection Copy

We All Got History

The Memory Books of Amos Webber
  • ISBN-13: 9780252074400
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Nick Salvatore
  • Price: AUD $60.99
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2007
  • Format: Paperback 464 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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Lost for over a hundred years until their rediscovery by Nick Salvatore, Amos Webber's “Thermometer Books recorded six decades of the daily experiences of a black freeman in nineteenth-century Philadelphia and Worcester, Massachusetts. These diaries form the basis for Salvatore'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. In We All Got History, we see Amos 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.''A fascinating chronicle. . . . It warms the heart and soothes the soul of people thirsting for a broader sense of identity.''--Philadelphia Inquirer
''A fascinating chronicle...It warms the heart and soothes the soul of people thirsting for a broader sense of identity.'' Philadelphia Inquirer
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