First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)

Price, Professor Richard

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983

Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 189 p. : illustrations (some by William Blake) ; 27 cm. <br> "A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. Each page of the book presents a transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their eighteenth-century ancestors along with commentary from Price that places their accounts into a broader historical context."