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George Washington Williams: A Biography
John Hope Franklin
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Description for George Washington Williams: A Biography
Paperback. Reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States - George Washington Williams. Awarded the Clarence L Holte Literary Prize, this is a part biography and part social history. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
In George Washington Williams, John Hope Franklin reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States. Awarded the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize, this book traces Franklin’s forty-year quest for Williams’s story, a story largely lost to history until this volume was first published in 1985. The result, part biography and part social history, is a unique consideration of a pioneering historian by his most distinguished successor.
Williams, who lived from 1849 to 1891, had a remarkable career as soldier, minister, journalist, lawyer, politician, freelance diplomat, and ... Read more
In George Washington Williams, John Hope Franklin reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States. Awarded the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize, this book traces Franklin’s forty-year quest for Williams’s story, a story largely lost to history until this volume was first published in 1985. The result, part biography and part social history, is a unique consideration of a pioneering historian by his most distinguished successor.
Williams, who lived from 1849 to 1891, had a remarkable career as soldier, minister, journalist, lawyer, politician, freelance diplomat, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822321644
SKU
V9780822321644
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About John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University. His numerous publications include The Emancipation Proclamation, The Militant South, The Free Negro in North Carolina, Reconstruction After the Civil War, and A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Ante-bellum North. In 1997, his best-known book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans, celebrated its 30th ... Read more
Reviews for George Washington Williams: A Biography
“An extraordinary accomplishment . . . a model biography. . . .”—John W. Blassingame “In the historiography of African Americans, Williams stands not only as a pioneer, but as an author whose work has held its value. The conjunction of these two giants makes Franklin on Williams a work of enduring worth.”—Nell Irvin Painter, author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, ... Read more