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Article: A Companion to African American History.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- August 1, 2006
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A Companion to African American History. Edited by Alton Hornsby Jr., Delores P. Aldridge, and Angela M. Hornsby. Blackwell Companions to American History. (Malden, Mass., and other cities: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. xiv, 564. $131.95, ISBN 0-631-23066-1.)
Beginning with George Washington Williams's pioneering History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves ... (New York, 1883) and continuing to the present, scholars and intellectuals of the black experience in the United States have been motivated to demonstrate that African American history is a field worthy of serious study and essential to understanding the broader meaning of ...