In the Path of Virtue: The African American Moral Tradition

In this engaging historical survey of the African American concept of virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Samuel Roberts explores how virtue became "a vision of a divinely ordered life that impelled its adherents to struggle against the injustice of slavery and to forge communities and structures that could ensure the development of the furthest moral and material possibilities of African Americans".Samuel Kelton Roberts is the author of 'In the Path of Virtue: The African American Moral Tradition' with ISBN 9780829813272 and ISBN 0829813276.