Black Writers Of The Founding Era (loa #366) : A Library of America Anthology Hardback
by James G Basker, Annette Gordon-Reed, Nicole Seary
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Black Writers of the Founding Era is the most comprehensive anthology ever published of Black writing from the turbulent decades surrounding the birth of the United States.
An unprecedented archive of historical sources-including more than 200 poems, letters, sermons, newspaper advertisements, slave narratives, testimonies of faith and religious conversion, criminal confessions, court transcripts, travel accounts, private journals, wills, petitions for freedom, even dreams, by over 100 authors-it is a collection that reveals the surprising richness and diversity of Black experience in the new nation.
Here are writers both enslaved and free, loyalist and patriot, female and male, northern and southern; soldiers, seamen, and veterans; painters, poets, accountants, orators, scientists, community organizers, preachers, restaurateurs and cooks, hairdressers, criminals, carpenters, and many more.
Along with long-famous works like Phillis Wheatley's poems and Benjamin Banneker's astonishi
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:750 pages
- Publisher:The Library of America
- Publication Date:14/11/2023
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- ISBN:9781598537345
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:750 pages
- Publisher:The Library of America
- Publication Date:14/11/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781598537345