Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 / edited by Ibram X. Kendi, and Keisha N. Blain.
A chorus of extraordinary voices tells one of history's great epics: The four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619-- a year before the Mayflower dropped anchor off Cape Cod, when the White Lion disgorged "some 20 and odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia-- to the pre...
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| Other title: | Community history of African America, 1619-2019. |
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- A community of souls: an introduction / by Ibram X. Kendi
- Part one. 1619-1624: arrival / by Nikole Hannah-Jones ; 1624-1629: Africa / by Molefi Kete Asante ; 1629-1634: whipped for lying with a Black woman / by Ijeoma Oluo ; 1634-1639: tobacco / by DaMaris B. Hill ; 1639-1644: Black women's labor / by Brenda E. Stevenson ; 1644-1649: Anthony Johnson, colony of Virginia / by Maurice Carlos Ruffin ; 1649-1654: the Black family / by Heather Andrea Williams ; 1654-1659: unfree labor / by Nakia D. Parker ; Poem: "Upon arrival" / by Jericho Brown.
- Part two. 1659-1664: Elizabeth Keye / by Jennifer L. Morgan ; 1664-1669: the Virginia law on baptism / by Jemar Tisby ; 1669-1674: the royal African company / by David A. Love ; 1674-1679: Bacon's rebellion / by Heather C. McGhee ; 1679-1684: the Virginia law that forbade bearing arms; or the Virginia law that forbade armed self-defense / by Kellie Carter Jackson ; 1684-1689: the code noir / by Laurence Ralph ; 1689-1694: the Germantown petition against slavery / by Christopher J. Lebron ; 1694-1699: the middle passage / by Mary E. Hicks ; Poem: "Mama, where you keep your gun?" / by Phillip B. Williams.
- Part three. 1699-1704: the selling of Joseph / by Brandon R. Byrd ; 1704-1709: the Virginia slave codes / by Kai Wright ; 1709-1714: the revolt in New York / by Herb Boyd ; 1714-1719: the slave market / by Sasha Turner ; 1719-1724: maroons and marronage / by Sylviane A. Diouf ; 1724-1729: the spirituals / by Corey D. B. Walker ; 1729-1734: African identities / by Walter C. Rucker ; 1734-1739: from Fort Mose to soul city / by Brentin Mock ; Poem: "Before revolution" / by Morgan Parker.
- Part four. 1739-1744: the Stono rebellion / by Wesley Lowery ; 1744-1749: Lucy Terry Prince / by Nafissa Thompson-Spires ; 1749-1754: race and the enlightenment / by Dorothy E. Roberts ; 1754-1759: Blackness and indigeneity / by Kyle T. Mays ; 1759-1764: one Black boy: the Great Lakes and the Midwest / by Tiya Miles ; 1764-1769: Phillis Wheatley / by Alexis Pauline Gumbs ; 1769-1774: David George / by William J. Barber II ; 1774-1779: the American revolution / by Martha S. Jones ; Poem: "Not without some instances of uncommon cruelty" / by Justin Phillip Reed.
- Part five. 1779-1784: Savannah, Georgia / by Daina Ramey Berry ; 1784-1789: the U.S. Constitution / by Donna Brazile ; 1789-1794: Sally Hemings / by Annette Gordon-Reed ; 1794-1799: the fugitive slave act / by Deirdre Cooper Owens ; 1799-1804: higher education / by Craig Steven Wilder ; 1804-1809: cotton / by Kiese Laymon ; 1809-1814: the Lousiana rebellion / by Clint Smith ; 1814-1819: queer sexuality / by Raquel Willis ; Poem: "Remembering the Albany 3" / by Ishmael Reed.
- Part six. 1819-1824: Denmark Vesey / by Robert Jones, Jr. ; 1824-1829: Freedom's Journal / by Pamela Newkirk ; 1829-1834: Maria Stewart / by Kathryn Sophia Belle ; 1834-1839: the national Negro conventions / by Eugene Scott ; 1839-1844: racial passing / by Allyson Hobbs ; 1844-1849: James McCune Smith, M.D. / by Harriet A. Washington ; 1849-1854: Oregon / by Mitchell S. Jackson ; 1854-1859: Dred Scott / by john a. powell ; Poem: "Compromise" / by Donika Kelly.
- Part seven. 1859-1864: Frederick Douglass / by Adam Serwer ; 1864-1869: the Civil War / by Jamelle Bouie ; 1869-1874: reconstruction / by Michael Harriot ; 1874-1879: Atlanta / by Tera W. Hunter ; 1879-1884: John Wayne Niles / by William A. Darity, Jr. ; 1884-1889: Philadelphia / by Kali Nicole Gross ; 1889-1894: lynching / by Crystal N. Feimster ; 1894-1899: Plessy v. Ferguson / by Blair L. M. Kelley ; Poem: "John Wayne Niles [...] Ermias Joseph Asghedom" / by Mahogany L. Browne.
- Part eight. 1899-1904: Booker T. Washington / by Derrick Alridge ; 1904-1909: Jack Johnson / by Howard Bryant ; 1909-1914: the Black public intellectual / by Beverly Guy-Sheftall ; 1914-1919: the great migration / by Isabel Wilkerson ; 1919-1924: red summer / by Michelle Duster ; 1924-1929: the Harlem Renaissance / by Farah Jasmine Griffin ; 1929-1934: the Great Depression / by Robin D. G. Kelley ; 1934-1939: Zora Neale Hurston / by Bernice L. McFadden ; Poem: "Coiled and unleashed" / by Patricia Smith.
- Part nine. 1939-1944: the Black soldier / by Chad Williams ; 1944-1949: the Black left / by Russell Rickford ; 1949-1954: the road to Brown v. Board of Education / by Sherrilyn Ifill ; 1954-1959: Black arts / by Imani Perry ; 1959-1964: the Civil Rights Movement / by Charles E. Cobb, Jr. ; 1964-1969: Black power / by Peniel Joseph ; 1969-1974: property / by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ; 1974-1979: Combahee river collective / by Barbara Smith ; Poem: "And the record repeats" / by Chet'la Sebree.
- Part ten. 1979-1984: the war on drugs / by James Forman, Jr. ; 1984-1989: the hip-hop generation / by Bakari Kitwana ; 1989-1994: Anita Hill / by Salamishah Tillet ; 1994-1999: the crime bill / by Angela Y. Davis ; 1999-2004: the Black immigrant / by Esther Armah ; 2004-2009: Hurricane Katrina / by Deborah Douglas ; 2009-2014: the Shelby ruling / by Karine Jean-Pierre ; 2014-2019: Black Lives Matter / by Alicia Garza ; Poem: American Abecedarian" / by Joshua Bennett ; Conclusion: our ancestor's wildest dreams / by Keisha N. Blain.