African American History

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1972. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0252002253 . Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Brown cloth covered boards have black lettering to the spine of the book. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a solid black color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of light bumping & rubbing. Light brown / tannish dust jacket has some noticeable rubbing to the front cover. The spine of the dust jacket has noticeable sunning / lightening. There are a couple of tiny edge tears to the top edge of the dust jacket spine and one tiny nick / tear to the top front edge of the dust jacket. Dust jacket has been price clipped. Overall, a very good+ copy. "The United States and Great Britain share a common past in bringing slaves to Amerca and trading slave-grown products. They also worked together to end slavery, although the historical literature up to now has treated the British and American antislavery movements separately. This book traces for the first tme the coordination of activities and strategies of abolitionists in Great Britain and the United States from the colonial period through the Civil War and shows that, by the 1830's, the two movements - were so intertwined they can scarecely be untangled. - " . more information

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