From Sundown To Sunup: The Making Of The Black Community

Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, No. 11. George P. Rawick's From Sundown to Sunup traces the history of Afro-Americans, and in doing so shatters many of the myths that have surrounded the subject. Contrary to the common assumption that the enslaved Afro-Americans were passive subjects, they were, Rawick demonstrates, active and vital subjects of their own history. He cites as evidence the abundant records left by ex-slaves - the slave narratives as recorded by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration and Fisk University in the 1920s and 1930s - which show that they developed their own social structure and an awareness of their situation and the means necessary to survive within it. Owner's Name inside. Note on inside back cover where the book was bought.