Volume 23, Number 15 · September 30, 1976
The Gutman Report
By George M. Fredrickson
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
by Herbert G. Gutman
Pantheon, 704 pp., $15.95
Whatever else the civil rights movement of the 1960s may have accomplished or failed to accomplish, it at least liberated Afro-Americans from historical invisibility. As recently as 1965, the dean of American historians produced a best-selling history of the United States in which black leaders and cultural achievements received scarcely more attention than horses and horse-raising.[1] It is hard to imagine such a thing happening again. Not only has black history gained academic respectability, but it has even become a preoccupation of the press and television.
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