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"We were waiting and listening as for a bolt from the sky," said Frederick Douglass in Boston's Tremont Temple on January 1, 1863, awaiting word that Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Bolden adopts Douglass's collective "we" for the narrative voice representing all people -- black and white -- who stood up for "black liberty." Bolden succeeds in taking a complicated story and a dry document (possessing "all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading" as historian Richard Hofstadter wrote) and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Bolden succeeds in taking a complicated story and a dry document and making the narrative interesting, lively, and per...Log In or Sign Up to Read More