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Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
Title:
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
ISBN:
9780593402429
Edition:
First large print edition.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 708 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Contents:
A community of souls : an introduction / Part one. 1619-1624 : arrival / Part two. 1659-1664 : Elizabeth Keye / Part three. 1699-1704 : the selling of Joseph / Part four. 1739-1744 : the Stono rebellion / Part five. 1779-1784 : Savannah Georgia / Part six. 1819-1824 : Denmark Vesey / Part seven. 1859-1864 : Frederick Douglass / "John Wayne Niles ... .--...- -.-... / Part nine. 1939-1944 : the Black soldier / Part ten. 1979-1984 : the war on drugs / Conclusion : our ancestor's wildest dreams
Summary:
"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America"--
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