Speak Out in Thunder Tones: Letters and Other Writings by Black Northerners, 1787-1865

By Dorothy Sterling

Book Overview

"This impressive collection, drawn from a wealth of original research into previously untapped sources--including letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a"

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385024746
• ISBN13: 9780385024747
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This book is great. It is a peek inside the minds and life of early colonial blacks in America. I especially like the treatment of Paul Cuffe's correspondence with his contemporary. I also cannot forget to mention benjamin Bannaker and his responses to the racism of Thomas Jefferson.