We All Got History: THE MEMORY BOOKS OF AMOS WEBBER (Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Centennial Series (Sle))
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Book
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ISBN 10
0252074408
ISBN 13
9780252074400
Category
Biography, Memoir
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Publication Year
2006
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Pages
464
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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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
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