Bibliographic Essay on African American History - 6221 Words

Bibliographic Essay on African American History Introduction In the essay â€Å"On the Evolution of Scholarship in Afro- American History† the eminent historian John Hope Franklin declared â€Å"Every generation has the opportunity to write its own history, and indeed it is obliged to do so.†1 The social and political revolutions of 1960s have made fulfilling such a responsibility less daunting than ever. Invaluable references, including Darlene Clark Hine, ed. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Evelyn Brooks Higgingbotham, ed., Harvard Guide to African American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001); Arvarh E. Strickland and Robert E.†¦show more content†¦3 ï ¿ ¼Ã¯ ¿ ¼Ã¯ ¿ ¼Ã¯ ¿ ¼Ã¯ ¿ ¼Ã¯ ¿ ¼ Morgan, American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1975), offers a cogent explanation of the anomaly while T. H. Breen and Stephen Innes, Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia s Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980) personify the changing status of Africans in the Old Dominion. Kenneth Morgan’s Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America: A Short History (Washington Square: New York University Press, 2000) covers much of the same argument as Morgan but includes a larger geographical region. Most general sources contain limited discussions of enslaved women, especially in the North, but Nell Irving Painter, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol (New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1996); C. W. Larison, Sylvia Dubois, A Biography of the Slave who Whipt her Mistres and Gand her Fredom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), and Kenneth E. 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