Ash’s Reviews > An African American and Latinx History of the United States > Status Update

Realizing that I really lack the basic knowledge of American history to criticize or even form an opinion on how this book portrays history, therefore I might not end up rating the book as I am probably not qualified enough to do so. I should read more books on American history, from other people’s lenses.

“Douglass believed that the United States needed to surrender the image of itself as an exceptional icon of liberty in order to deal with the self-inflicted problems that had driven the country into bloody civil war.”