Children of fire : a history of African Americans

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Label

Children of fire : a history of African Americans

Title remainder

a history of African Americans

Statement of responsibility

Thomas C. Holt

Creator

• trueHolt, Thomas C., 1942-
• Holt, Thomas C., (Thomas Cleveland), 1942-

Subject

• trueUnited States -- Race relations
• trueHistory writing -- United States -- African American
• trueRace relations
• African Americans -- History
• trueAfrican American men
• trueAfrican Americans

Genre

• trueHistory writing

Language

eng

Summary

Author Holt, professor of American and African-American history at the University of Chicago, constructs an interlocking historical chain of the lives of Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), Richard Allen (1761-1831), Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), and W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), whose trajectories reveal a more complex history of African-Americans than the one that simply moves in a linear fashion from slavery to the civil rights movement. Holt connects these men through their corresponding but still unique lives; for example, Equiano, Allen, and Douglass had been slaves, but in different times and places, and in different global contexts. Though moored by these extraordinary figures, Holt's history, replete with vignettes of the lesser known, is inspired by a sense "that ordinary people don't live history as it is taught by historians."

Writing style

• trueAccessible
• trueScholarly

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973/.0496073

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E185

LC item number

.H57 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult