Four Hundred Souls
A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
The book is a unique narrative that chronicles four hundred years of African American history through a series of ninety essays by different writers, each covering a five-year period. It combines historical accounts, personal narratives, and essays by historians, writers, and activists to explore the vast and complex experience of Black people in America from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to the present day.
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