Black Pioneers: An Untold Story
by William Loren Katz
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Author: William Loren KatzEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-05-01
ISBN: 0689814100
Number of pages: 208
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Atheneum
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Book Review: Impressive
Summary: 5 Stars
This book tells the story of all pioneers, but with a unique twist that includes the horrors of escaping slavery, being denied education, and racially-motivated mob attacks. Although this book may provide more detail that the teacher has time to fit into the curriculum, the teacher may want to use segments from the book. For example, there are segments about Missouri and Kansas in the book, which would be relevant to state history instruction. The teacher may want to use the book at the key vehicle to teach history during pioneer times. This impressive book contains drawings and photographs to help students understand the content.
Summary of Black Pioneers: An Untold Story
Out of a past little noted in history texts comes this tale of African American pioneers in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. These pathfinders were slaves, poets, runaways, missionaries, farmers, teachers, and soldiers. For these African Americans, the frontier meant freedom, and from the earliest times, some seized liberty by joining Indian nations.As Southern slaveholders tried to pass laws to make slavery legal in the West and territorial legislatures wrote "Black Laws" that limited basic rights to white settlers, African American pioneers became freedom fighters. From Ohio to Kansas they battled slavehunters and developed Underground Railroad stations. Black families built their own schools and churches and created unique forms of protest to ensure their advancement.
Historian William Loren Katz reveals a frontier saga that has often been buried, glossed over, or lost.
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