Best Selling Books by John Hope

Based on family letters and other first-hand evidence, this remarkable piece of detective work follows a remarkable Black family as its members walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a "promised land" where African Americans would be treated with respect. Their record of these journeys provides a vivid picture of antebellum America, stretching from New Orleans to St. Louis, from the Overland Trail to the California Gold Rush, and from Civil War battles to steamboat adventures. John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger weave a compelling narrative that illuminates the larger themes of slavery and freedom.

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When Joseph Conrad died in 1924, Ford Madox Ford immediately published a memoir of his involvement with Conrad at which Conrad''s widow took offense. The ensuing "controversy" left Ford with a lasting reputation for "unreliability" which Morey examines in detail, uncovering evidence that substantiates most of Ford''s claims. Morey''s judicious assessment of the literary friendship and interdependence between two remarkable writers is a much-needed addition to studies of Conrad and Ford.

Pictorial survey by a Black historian from early origins in Africa through contemporary times, including numerous rare drawings and photographs.

"From the flood of material that has appeared on the Negro and Civil Rights, John Hope Franklin and Isidore Starr have finally provided a book which combines an over-all, objective view of perhaps the most crucial question yet to confront America, with the depth of emotion--the anger, the joy, the anguish--experienced by all who have participated in this struggle. This unique collection contains material by sociologists, journalists, historians, cartoonists, writers, citizens and leaders-both Negro and white-as well as documents, polls and statistics arranged around the key questions which have con-fronted the Negro and America since the turn of the century. "The Negro In Twentieth Century America" offers no easy solutions, but, as the authors say in the introduction: ''If the reader is looking for the simple answer to the problem of the Negro, this is not the book for him. This volume was designed to force the reader to do some work....To understand the complexity of the problems of the Negro is the first step in the search for solutions. To reject the problems and to throw up one''s hands because of the many difficulties would result in American tragedy for the whites as well as for the Negroes''"--Publisher''s description.