![]() In 80 chronological chapters, each by a different author and spanning five years, the book charts the 400-year journey of African Americans to the present - a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles and stunning achievements - in a choral work of exceptional power and beauty.Ĭontributors include some of the leading writers, historians, journalists, lawyers, poets and activists of contemporary America. The story begins with the arrival of 20 Ndongo people on the shores of the first British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of the Mayflower. Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by 90 leading Black voices. ![]()
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