African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals Cover:Hardcover In shedding light on this

In shedding light on this history

she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers

When an unexpected turn of events draws Marc—her on and off-again ex-boyfriend—back into her world with surprising demands

In doing so she offers a collection of gems from educators who are attuned to the patterns of pain and struggle

For Damon Young

African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals Cover:Hardcover In shedding light on thisIn this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. African Founders explores the little known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures