We All Got History: THE MEMORY BOOKS OF AMOS WEBBER (Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Centennial Series (Sle))
By Nick Salvatore.
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 Richmo...
ISBN(s)
0252074408, 9780252074400
