Historian David Hackett Fischer's latest book, 'African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals,' is an encyclopedia of enslaved people’s experiences in the United States from the 17th to the 19th century 📝: Olivia B. Waxman (OBWax)
The book, which came out May 31, is organized by region to show how the experience of slavery differed around the country—and to show its impact in local cultures today.
They’re centered too much on what went wrong and too little on the creativity of people who are responding to what went wrong.. I think that’s much more important than carrying on about racism in America. What I’m trying to do is not to dwell on the dark side. There is plenty of writing about the evils, the horror of slavery. And I’m interested in the people who tried to do something about all of that, who tried to build a free system that would include those who were enslaved, the people who tried to liberate, emancipate slaves, who tried to enlarge freedom to include them—and in that process, enlarge our free institutions.
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