The Black Family Who Built America by Cheryl McKissack Daniel
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| Management number | 7115528 | Release Date | 2025/08/20 | List Price | $9.60 | Model Number | 7115528 | ||
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The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries Of Daring Pioneers by Cheryl Mckissack Daniel
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Genre: Architectural History
The riveting story of the McKissack family—the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today—in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation.
Captured in his native West Africa and enslaved on American shores by a North Carolina plantation owner, Moses McKissack I began to build his way to emancipation right from the start. Becoming an enslaved craftsman, he picked up the trade his family would become famous for in the earliest years of the 19th century, passing his learnings down to his children and seeing them off to freedom after the Civil War.
The family would settle in Tennessee, getting its bearings in the building trades despite rampant discrimination, establishing a foothold
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| Category | Books > Nonfiction Books > Biographies & Memoirs |
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| Brand | Bestseller |
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