Freedom's Odyssey: African American History Essays from Phylon

Reprints 29 essays published in Phylon: the Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture from 1940, when W. E. B. Du Bois founded the journal, to 1987. They are arranged in the sections Freedom Denied: Enslaved Africans; Freedom Beckons; Abolition, colonization, and emigration; Freedom's People: African Americans during the postbellum reconstruction era; Freedom Delayed: Separation and Inequality in the Jim Crow era; and Freedom's Champion's: Race Leadership and Organizational Efforts. Each essay is accompanied by an editorial preface, and the volume itself is indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)