Joanna Brooks Books
American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures
"American Lazarus offers a new vision of a foundational moment in American literature. It reveals the depth of early Black and Indian intellectual history and reassesses the political, literary, an...
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Why we left
"Joanna Brooks's ancestors were among the earliest waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. They lived hardscrabble lives for generations, eking out subsistence in one place after ano...
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Face Zion Forward
By John Saillant, Joanna Brooks
This book brings together for the first time the memoirs, sermons, and speeches of the early writers of the black Atlantic. At the close of the Revolutionary War, more than 3,000 black Loyalists, m...
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