Children of Fire: A History of African Americans

Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always treat them separately? In this groundbreaking new book, renowned historian Thomas C. Holt challenges this form to tell the story of generations of African Americans through the lived experience of the subjects themselves, with all of the nuances, ironies, contradictions, and complexities one might expect.

Author: Thomas C. Holt
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 09/27/2011
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780809034178

About the Author

Thomas C. Holt is the James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago, and the author of Black Over White.

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