Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

English

ISBN: 0307426254

EAN: 9780307426253

Category: Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General

Publisher: Vintage

Release Date: 12/18/2007

Synopsis: This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom.

Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a recently freed slave, Alexander shows three generations of Bonds as they take chances and break new ground.

From Victorian England to antebellum Virginia, from Herman Melville's New England to the Jim Crow South, from urban race riots to the battlefields of World War I, this fascinating chronicle sheds new light on eighty crucial years in our nation's troubled history. The Bond family's rise from slavery, their interaction with prominent figures such as W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, and their eventual, uneasy realization of the American dream shed a great deal of light on our nation's troubled heritage.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Awards: Black Caucus of the America Library Association Award – null 

Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

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Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 720