We All Got History : The Memory Books of Amos Webber
by Salvatore, Nick
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0812926811
- ISBN 13
- 9780812926811
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About This Item
Crown. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1996. Stated 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0812926811 . Winner of the Bancroft Prize. One chilly December evening in the city of Philadelphia, a twenty-eight-year-old man named Amos Webber opened up a notebook and begain to keep a chronicle. He wrote about the weather and about politics, about friends and about family, and he wrote about what it was like to be a black American in a land that still considered those of his skin color to be less than human. The year was 1854. In 1985, Nick Salvatore stumbled upon a 2,000-page chronicle in a Harvard library. The journal of Amos Webber, who was active in the Underground Railroad, fought in the Civil War and was a political activist, is the core of this eye-opening history. Through Webber's life, readers see not only the history of one man, but the history of our nation. Photos. Map of Philadelphia in 1850.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 443 pages; 31241 .
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- The Novel Shoppe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31241
- Title
- We All Got History : The Memory Books of Amos Webber
- Author
- Salvatore, Nick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Stated 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812926811
- ISBN 13
- 9780812926811
- Publisher
- Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 0812926811, Essays, HARVARD Library, CIVIL War, UNDERGROUND Railroad, African American Histories, Slavery And Abolition
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