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Blacks -- United States -- History -- Miscellanea.
Blacks -- History -- Miscellanea.
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Blacks -- United States -- History -- Miscellanea.
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The Black book / Middleton A. Harris with the assistance of Morris Levitt,
Roger
Furman
, Ernest Smith ; foreword and preface by Toni Morrison.
Penguin Random House, 2019, c1974.
Call #:
973.0496073 B6272
Subjects
Blacks -- United States -- History -- Miscellanea.
Blacks -- History -- Miscellanea.
ISBN:
9781400068487 (hc.)
Description:
198 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports., facsims. ; 30 cm.
Notes:
"35th anniversary ed."
"Originally published in hardcover and trade paperback in the United States by Random House ... in 1974"--T.p. verso.
Summary:
A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored.
"Seventeenth-century sketches of Africans as they appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her Child.” In 1974, Middleton A. Harris and Toni Morrison led a team of gifted, passionate collectors in compiling these images and nearly five hundred others into one sensational narrative of the black experience in America—The Black Book. Now in a newly restored hardcover edition, The Black Book remains a breathtaking testament to the legendary wisdom, strength, and perseverance of black men and women intent on freedom. Prominent collectors Morris Levitt,
Roger
Furman
, and Ernest Smith joined Harris and Morrison (then a Random House editor, ultimately a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Nobel Laureate) to spend months studying, laughing at, and crying over these materials—transcripts from fugitive slaves’ trials and proclamations by Frederick Douglass and celebrated abolitionists, as well as chilling images of cross burnings and lynchings, patents registered by black inventors throughout the early twentieth century, and vibrant posters from “Black Hollywood” films of the 1930s and 1940s..."--Jacket.
Other authors:
Harris, M. A., 1908-1977.
Levitt, Morris, 1938-
Furman
,
Roger
,
1924-1983
.
Smith, Ernest.
Morrison, Toni.
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