1993/01/01 by John Lauritz Larson
Social Sciences · #Race, History, and American Society
paper · doi:10.2307/3124090
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pretation. Fugitive slaves-Free Frank, John Brown, Martin Delaney, and John Mercer Langston-are only a few who realized the importance of a frontier, of movement and expansionism in addressing black self-determination. For African American history, Turner's thesis is significant not only because he provided a challenge to his generation of black historians, but also because his historical blind spot encouraged future scholars of the black experience to employ Turner's own guidelines to reveal the flaws in his perspectives and go beyond his narrow parameters in defining the meaning of the frontier.