Black Self-Determination: A Cultural History of the Faith of the Fathers

V.P. Franklin, associate professor of History and Afro -American studies at Yale University, examines the 'core values' of the Afro-American experience. He quotes from early slave narratives, songs, sermons, and interviews with ex-slaves to show ho Afro-Americans came to value freedom, resistance, and black unity and to formulate cultural values separate from white dominated society.