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African Founders

How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
  • David Hackett Fischer
2022
Simon & Schuster

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  • Enslaved people working on South Carolina Plantation.
    Book Review

    A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide

    "African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.
    by Ken Masugi via Law & Liberty on November 8, 2023
  • Absalom Jones.
    Book Review

    1619 Rightly Understood

    David Hackett Fischer's book "African Founders" should be the starting point for any reflection on the enduring African ­influence on American national ideals.
    by Wilfred M. McClay via First Things on May 13, 2023
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