Black Freedom
A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days
$55.08
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2026
Summary
The first fully illustrated history of Juneteenth and other Emancipation Day celebrations, told through photographs, art, and an engrossing narrative from an award-winning historian.
For more than 150 years, Black communities have gathered to honor freedom, resilience, and the ongoing struggle for true liberation. While Juneteenth has recently gained wider recognition, it was one of many Emancipation Day traditions celebrated across the United States. These observance…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780762486939 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0762486937 |
| Author: | Blair LM Kelley |
| Publisher: | Running Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Running Press Adult |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.00kg |
| Dimensions: | 256mm x 182mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
“Holding Black Freedom in your hand feels a little like holding a devotional… . An antidote to the images of Black suffering that seem to dominate the cultural imagination… Black Freedom is an ode to joy, pride and resistance.”
–BookPage, STARRED REVIEW“Black Freedom documents the perseverance, resistance, and, more importantly, the unquenchable joy that is an indelible part of the Black American backstory. Kelley doesn’t give us an account; she gives us our account. This is history as it should be told.”
–Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF History“Blair Kelley’s language sings–each sentence shaped with a poet’s care, each page alive with the unshakable resolve of Black people. Black Freedom is more than a book; it is a chorus of memory and hope.”
–Bettina Love, New York Times bestselling author of Punished for Dreaming“This is a portal. This is time travel facilitated by one of the great historians of our time. Thanks to Blair Kelley, we can go to an important fissure in the story of domination. We can wonder new wonderings and ask new questions about freedom. We can look love in the face and see what it is asking of us now.”–Alexis Pauline Gumbs, award-winning author of Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre LordeAbout The Author
Blair LM Kelley
Blair L.M. Kelley is the director of the Center for the Study of the American South and codirector of the Southern Futures initiative at the University of North Carolina. Her first book, Right to Ride, won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, and she received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her writing of Black Folk. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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