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Fine in fine dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine mylar protected DJ. Stated 1st edition with no additional printings listed. DJ has some minor general wear. Illustrated. 8vo; 396 pages.
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Good, fair. 396, illus., biographical directory, index, front DJ flap price clipped, ink notation on front endpaper, DJ in plastic sleeve. DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped. This impressive collection, drawn froma wealth of original research into previously untapped sources--including letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a ship's log, and official documents--allows African Americans to speak afresh across more than two centuries. Besides the expected voices of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, this book makes vivid the experiences and views of a diverse range of lesser-known but equally fascinating personalities: Ira Aldridge, one of the great Shakespearean actors of his day; William Allen, the first black college professor on the country; the astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker; Paul Cuffe, owner of a fleet of merchant ships: Martin R. Delaney, the father of black nationalism; James Forten, war veteran, inventor, and one of the wealthiest men in America; the militant Henry Highland Garnet, who urged slaves to revolt; the poet Phillis Wheatley, as well as ordinary free blacks, fugitive slaves, soldiers, wives, mothers, pioneers, sailors, and numerous others. The editor has forged her material into a documentary history as dramatic as it is memorable.
