![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This comprehensive, dynamic, single-volume work is an essential historical keepsake. With lyrical interludes from ten poets, eighty writers take on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span, exploring their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemic. In Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African Americans, 1619-2019, a chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present. They’ve gathered together ninety Black writers from all disciplines to tell one of history’s great epics: the journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present. Heather McGhee Bacon’s Rebellion, 1674-1679. Blain, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. Four Hundred Souls A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and Keisha N. Blain.Ģ019 marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first captive Africans in Virginia-and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi and award-winning historian Keisha N. ‘Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019’ After the killing last year of George Floyd, in police custody in Minneapolis, Ibram X. A “choral history” of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 90 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. ![]()
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