A High Price for Freedom by Clyde W. Ford - 9780063309814

Name: A High Price for Freedom by Clyde W. Ford - 9780063309814
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A High Price for FreedomRaising Hidden Voices from the African American Past\nAuthor(s): Clyde W. Ford\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States\nImprint: Amistad Press\nISBN-13: 9780063309814, 978-0063309814\nSynopsis\nThe author and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project gives voice to long silent African Americans from the past, allowing them to tell their own stories that shed new light on critical moments in the Black Freedom Struggle, challenging what we think we know about Black history.\n\n History is at its best when new findings and perspectives challenge old ideas and notions about the past, and even overturn common wisdom.\n\nWhat if a former enslaved man in Galveston, Texas, witnessed the first Juneteenth and told a completely different story from what most of us know about that day? Why were slave ships most prone to rebellion, including those carrying the most African women? How has Islam found its way into R,.