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Book Reviews These are some reviews from a recent issue of
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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African & African American Experience, (5 vols.) / Black Women in America, (3 vols.)
Africana - Edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr. / Black Women - Edited by Darlene Clark Hine
Africana - Illustrated, index, 4000 articles, 4500 pp., 2005 Second Edition, $500 plus shipping. / Black Women - Illustrated, index, 1680 pp., 2005 Second Edition, $325 plus shipping. Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016-4314.
These two sets of books on the African-American experience are absolutely fantastic. They are a detailed look at the history and personalities of African Americans in America and the world. The Encyclopedia not only gives detailed descriptions of personalities, both historic and present day, but covers nations throughout the world that are significant in African-American history. Black Women in America focuses on African American women and their history in America, again both past and present. Black Women also covers the Civil War, Reconstruction, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, plus Freewomen and other ex-slaves who became important following the Civil War. In both sets there are other references that would be of interest to Civil War aficionados, but they are few and brief. I strongly recommend both of these sets for anyone interested in African-American history, but look at it for the entire experience, not just for 19th-century Civil War history.
Blake A. Magner
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