What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family(Stevenson, BH) averasboro "First in Freedom

"First in Freedom

Eric Foner writes of Lincoln and the movement to colonize emancipated slaves outside the United States

(Emerging Civil War Anniversary Series)

Meade launched a pursuit along different routes hoping to catch his beaten enemy without unduly exposing his own battle-exhausted troops to a devastating counterattack or ambush

Charlène Tong (Illustrator)

What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family(Stevenson, BH) averasboro "First in Freedomby Brenda E. Stevenson The legacy of the slave family haunts the status of black Americans in modern U. S. society. Stereotypes that first entered the popular imagination in the form of plantation lore have continued to distort the African American social identity. In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as