First published 1999
This collection presents the most significant political documents and personal accounts written by African-Americans from the colonial era through the late twentieth century. Manning Marable, a leading historian, has assembled testimonials, speeches, essays, and manifestos that shaped the Black freedom struggle across three hundred years. The anthology includes voices from enslaved people, abolitionists, civil rights leaders, and contemporary activists. Marable organizes these writings to show how African-American political thought evolved through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and beyond. The book offers readers direct access to the words and ideas that drove social change in America.
Genres: anthologies, 20th-century, american, african-american, 21st-century, american-history
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, social-justice
Setting: America
Period: Colonial Era, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights Movement
598 pages · Hardcover · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.