uscpress.com - African American Studies https://uscpress.com/ The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017666/The-Freedom-Ship-of-Robert-Smalls
The true story of an enslaved African American man who escaped to freedom and became a military and political leader

Robert Smalls, born a slave in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, gai…]]>
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A Place to Worship https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017695/A-Place-to-Worship
A chronicle of the historically rich spiritual gatherings so vital to rural African American life

Camp meetings—also called revivals—originated with circuit-riding Methodist preachers w…]]>
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South Carolina State University https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017679/South-Carolina-State-University
The turbulent history of one of South Carolina's historically black colleges and its significant role in the civil rights movement

Since its founding in 1896, South Carolina State Unive…]]>
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Savannah in the New South https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017668/Savannah-in-the-New-South
An examination of the Georgian city's complicated and sometimes turbulent development

Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr.…]]>
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Claiming Freedom https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017667/Claiming-Freedom
An exploration of the political and social experiences of African Americans in transition from enslaved to citizen

Claiming Freedom is a noteworthy and dynamic analysis of the transitio…]]>
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Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017622/Maternal-Metaphors-of-Power-in-African-American-Womens-Literature
An in-depth examination of Black women's experiences as portrayed in literature throughout American history

Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory…]]>
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Understanding Edward P. Jones https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017582/Understanding-Edward-P-Jones
A comprehensive survey of the works of an acclaimed African American writer

In Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones's award-winning works as well as the signif…]]>
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Yes, Lord, I Know the Road https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017614/Yes-Lord-I-Know-the-Road
The first comprehensive five-century chronicle of the South Carolina African American experience

Yes, Lord, I Know the Road is the first comprehensive history of African Americans in th…]]>
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Children's Biographies of African American Women https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017708/Childrens-Biographies-of-African-American-Women
A study of how rhetoric has shaped the life stories of African American role models in children's literature

In Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory…]]>
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The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, Volume 4 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017659/The-Papers-of-Howard-Washington-Thurman-Volume-4
The mid-twentieth-century writings of a pioneering voice for social justice

The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman is a multivolume, chronologically arranged documentary edition spanni…]]>
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