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Herbert Aptheker’s pioneering work demolishing the then widespread claim that African Americans passively accepted slavery. First published in 1943, Aptheker’s study was one of the first to expose the true nature of slavery, as well as slave resistance. Here is the 50th Anniversary edition (1993).
jwendland –
When I first read this bok about 20 years ago, it transformed how I understood US slavery. It should be read alongside Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction.