| We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber Contributor(s): Salvatore, Nick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252074408 ISBN-13: 9780252074400 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Religion | Christianity - Mennonite - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2006017815 |
| Series: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.60 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lost for over a hundred years until their rediscovery by Nick Salvatore, Amos Webber s Thermometer Books recorded six decades of the daily experiences of a black freeman in nineteenth-century Philadelphia and Worcester, Massachusetts. These diaries form the basis for Salvatore s vital portrait of an everyday hero who struggled unrelentingly for his people in a land that still considered blacks to be less than human.In We All Got History, we see Webber working as a janitor; rescuing fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad; marching triumphantly into Richmond with the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry; and active in the religious and fraternal organizations that became the cement of the African American community. What emerges from this moving history is not only a picture of Webber the man, but also of the vibrant African American culture that nurtured him." |