The word jubilee means, among other things, "a celebration in anticipation of future happiness." Based on new scholarship by the Schomburg Center, Jubilee presents a fresh, new perspective on how enslaved Africans triumphed over slavery. Working as creative agents of their own destiny within the shackles of slavery, enslaved Africans reinvented themselves as a new people - a new American people - laying the foundations for truly unique African-American social, cultural, political, and economic expressions throughout the Western Hemisphere. With almost two hundred illustrations, including early slave ship manifests, manumission papers, early photographs of slaves and of freed African-Americans, paintings, and artifacts from shackles to freedom quilts.
- ISBN10 0792269829
- ISBN13 9780792269823
- Publish Date 1 February 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint National Geographic Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English