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The Black Book
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it 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,...more
In 1974,...more
Hardcover, 35th Anniversary Edition, 224 pages
Published
November 10th 2009
by Random House
(first published January 12th 1974)
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Avery interesting read. This is a collection articles, pictures, and other documents. It's like reading a scrapbook that someone meticulously put together around a single theme, Black History. Some of the documents are difficult to read because of the small print (reduced to fit the pages. I learned what the contemporaries of a time period thought about some things. I felt slightly slighted because some of my favorite historical personages were left out. However, they may have been included in e...more
I don't know why I was thinking about this book the other night. I think Toni Morrison conceived of it when she was only an editor, not an author, and it's sort of a black American family scrapbook and full of tons of traumatic things from the past. A lot of racist advertising, bill of sales and most traumatic of all, a really explicit lynching photo with a guy's corpse partially burnt up. Desecrated bodies are amazingly disturbing to look at. It's not the kind of thing I think would bother ...more
Awesome journey into Black history through actual photographs, public and private records, 1st person narratives, etc.
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This was highlighted on NPR today.
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