Jubilee : the emergence of African-American culture / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library ; [text] by Howard Dodson ; with Amiri Baraka ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-219) and index.

This illustrated history documents the courageous and innovative ways that enslaved Africans developed their own unique culture in the midst of slavery and how that culture developed and flourished through the years after emancipation to the turn of the century.