The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans

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Jonathan Scott Holloway
Oxford University Press

What does it mean to be an American if you are African American? From Jonestown to Black Lives Matter, The Cause of Freedom tells a story about our capacity and willingness to realize the ideal articulated in the country's founding document: that all people are created equal.

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