Integrating primary resources and original research, Georgia's Commissioner of Labor demonstrates how black Georgians aggressively challenged their enslavement and influenced the development of state, the South, and the United States.
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Integrating primary resources and original research, Georgia's Commissioner of Labor demonstrates how black Georgians aggressively challenged their enslavement and influenced the development of state, the South, and the United States.
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UsedVeryGood. Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; in very good conditi on with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket shows light scuffing to exter ior and light staining to interior.
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Susan King Taylor (Front cover photograph) Very good in Good jacket. vi, [4], 333, [1] pages. Illustrations. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Signed and dated by author on the fep. DJ has some wear, soiling, and small edge tears. Thurmond's book, Freedom: Georgia's Antislavery Heritage, 1733-1865, was awarded the Georgia Historical Society's Lilla Hawes Award. The Georgia Center for the Book listed Freedom on its 2005 list of The 25 Books All Georgians Should Read. Michael L. Thurmond (born 5 January 1953) is the Chief Executive Officer of DeKalb County, Georgia and was a representative in the Georgia Assembly. He is also an attorney, author, and lecturer. Thurmond served as the interim superintendent of the DeKalb County School District, the third largest district in the state of Georgia from 2013 to 2015. The district serves nearly 99, 000 students with over 13, 400 employees. Thurmond was the Democratic Party's nominee for United States Senate in 2010. He was also one of the last Democrats to win statewide in Georgia until 2020. In 1986, he became the first African-American elected to the Georgia General Assembly from Clarke County since Reconstruction. During his legislative tenure, Thurmond authored major legislation that has provided more than $250 million in tax relief to Georgia's senior citizens and working families. He led the state Division of Family and Children's Services and created the innovative Work First program, which helped over 90, 000 welfare-dependent Georgia families move from dependence into the workforce. In 1997, Thurmond became a distinguished lecturer at the University of Georgia Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Decades before Georgia became the cradle of the modern Civil Rights Movement, generations of its African Americans waged a historic struggle to abolish the institution of slavery. Now Michael Thurmond presents this unique, fascinating story of black Georgia from the early eighteenth century until the end of the Civil War.
