BLACK CULTURE AND BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - A landmark book - one which showed - contrary to the prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group pride, history, or cohesiveness - that there was a rich and complex African American oral tradition, including songs, proverbs, jokes, folktales, and long narrative poems called toasts - work that dated from before and after emancipation. Notes, index. xx, 522 pp. ISBN: 0-19-502088X.
Condition: Good in a good only dustjacket (notes on front endpaper, dj has overall edgewear, sunning to the spine. Original price of 15.95 still present, dj now protected by archival cover.