No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American HistoryHarper & Row, 1971 - 311 pagina's Explodes such American myths as free elections, the Mason-Dixon line, free enterprise, Emancipation, and the Puritan Pilgrims. |
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Pagina 81
... Washington and others had sought to keep black trigger fingers out of the Revo- lutionary Army . Slaves had served in state militia and had fought in the earliest battles of the American Revolution , when the Con- tinental Army was ...
... Washington and others had sought to keep black trigger fingers out of the Revo- lutionary Army . Slaves had served in state militia and had fought in the earliest battles of the American Revolution , when the Con- tinental Army was ...
Pagina 82
... Washington listened to his fears , even though he had a tendency not to listen to black folks . Two weeks before the order was issued excluding blacks from military service , black poetess Phillis Wheatley , from Massachu- setts , sent ...
... Washington listened to his fears , even though he had a tendency not to listen to black folks . Two weeks before the order was issued excluding blacks from military service , black poetess Phillis Wheatley , from Massachu- setts , sent ...
Pagina 95
... Washington on the sixteenth of November , the stampede from Fort Lee on the eighteenth of November , the retreat through New Jersey , and , on the eighth of December , Washington's escape across the Del- aware . A British letter writer ...
... Washington on the sixteenth of November , the stampede from Fort Lee on the eighteenth of November , the retreat through New Jersey , and , on the eighth of December , Washington's escape across the Del- aware . A British letter writer ...
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The Myth of the Savage | 31 |
The Myth of the Founding Fathers | 64 |
The Myth of Black Content ΙΟΙ | 101 |
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