Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019

Kendi, Ibram X., (editor.). Blain, Keisha N., 1985- (editor.).

Summary:

"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America"-- Provided by publisher.

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 Copper 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 Joseph Bennett
Conclusion : our ancestor's wildest dreams / by Keisha N. Blain.

Item details

ISBN: 0593402421
ISBN: 9780593402429
Physical Description: xxiv, 708 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Edition: First large print edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2021]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [543]-611) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 Copper 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 Joseph Bennett
Conclusion : our ancestor's wildest dreams / by Keisha N. Blain.