Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
by Ely, Melvin Patrick
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/About Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679447385
- ISBN 13
- 9780679447382
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Synopsis
Melvin Patrick Ely, a native of Richmond, Virginia, took undergraduate and graduate degrees in history at Princeton University, studied linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia. He has taught in public high schools in Virginia and Massachusetts, at Yale University, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 1995 he has taught at the College of William and Mary, where he is currently Newton Family Professor of History and Black Studies. He is the author of The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon , and co-translator, with Naama Zahavi-Ely, of The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin’s Puzzle , by Amotz and Avishag Zahavi.
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- Bookseller
- Basement Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036598
- Title
- Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
- Author
- Ely, Melvin Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- About Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679447385
- ISBN 13
- 9780679447382
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 640
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- HISTORY AMERUICAN SOUTH RACE RELATIONS NEGROES BLACKS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non-fiction; History;
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