This impressive collection, drawn from a 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 in the country the astronomer and
mathematician Benjamin Banneker Paul Cuffe, owner of a fleet of
merchant ships Martin R. Delany, 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.
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