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TRIBUTES TO JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN:

The Prince who Refused the Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2010

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.*
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Harvard University
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Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA 02138. E-mail: gates@harvard.edu
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When I was twenty, I decided to hitchhike across the African continent, more or less following the line of the Equator, from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. I packed only one pair of sandals and one pair of jeans to make room for the three hefty books I had decided to read from cover to cover: Don Quixote, Moby Dick, and From Slavery to Freedom, by John Hope Franklin. I read the latter—the black and white bound third edition of the book—while recovering from a severe bout of amoebic dysentery sailing down the Congo River. It became such a valued reference for me that I kept it, for years, in the bookcase at my bedside.

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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Spring 2010 , pp. 5 - 8
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Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2010

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Franklin, John Hope (1947). From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, New York: A.A. Knopf. Reprint, 3ed. (1967). New York: Knopf.Google Scholar
Franklin, John Hope (2005). Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Google Scholar