To Wake the Nations

Eric J. Sundquist

Original title: To wake the nations

earliest edition we have, 1993 Belknap Press, 1998 paperback 718 pages

"This powerful book argues that white culture in America does not exist apart from black culture. The revolution of the rights of man that established this country collided long ago with the system of slavery, and we have been trying to reestablish a steady course for ourselves ever since. To Wake the Nations is urgent and rousing: we have integrated our buses, schools, and factories, but not the canon of American li...

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To Wake the Nations paperback · 1998 · Belknap Press · 718 pages · 9780674893313
To wake the nations edition · 1993 · Belknap Press of Harvard University Press · 705 pages

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