{"product_id":"9781598537345-black-writers-of-the-founding-era-loa-366-a-library-of-america-anthology","title":"Seary Nicole - Black Writers Of The Founding Era (Loa #366) A Library Of America Anthology - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Black Writers of the Founding Era is the most comprehensive anthology ever published of Black writing from the turbulent decades surrounding the birth of the United States. An unprecedented archive of historical sources - including more than 200 poems letters sermons newspaper advertisements slave narratives testimonies of faith and religious conversion criminal confessions court transcripts travel accounts private journals wills petitions for freedom even dreams by over 100 authors - it is a collection that reveals the surprising richness and diversity of Black experience in the new nation. Here are writers both enslaved and free loyalist and patriot female and male northern and southern; soldiers seamen and veterans; painters poets accountants orators scientists community organizers preachers restaurateurs and cooks hairdressers criminals carpenters and many more. Along with long - famous works like Phillis Wheatley's poems and Benjamin Banneker's astonishing mathematical and scientific puzzles are dozens of first - person narratives offering little - known Black perspectives on the events of the times like the Boston Massacre and the death of George Washington. From their bold and eloquent contributions to public debates about the meanings of the revolution and the values of the new nation - writings that dramatize the many ways in which protest activism and community organizing have been integral to the Black American experience from the beginning - to their intimate thoughts preserved in private diaries and letters some unseen to the present day the words of the many writers gathered here will indelibly alter our understandings of American history. A foreword by Annette Gordon - Reed and an introduction by James G. Basker along with introductory headnotes and explanatory notes drawing on cutting edge scholarship help to illuminate these writers works and to situate them in their historical contexts. A 16 - page color photo insert presents portraits of some of the writers included and images of the original manuscripts broadside and books in which their words have been preserved.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Black Writers Of The Founding Era (Loa #366) A Library Of America Anthology\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Seary Nicole\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: The Library Of America\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781598537345\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 750 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 11\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: American War Of Independence","brand":"Seary Nicole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49621612658993,"sku":"IN-G-9781598537345","price":29.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781598537345.jpg?v=1724696992","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781598537345-black-writers-of-the-founding-era-loa-366-a-library-of-america-anthology","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}