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2. Four Hundred Souls - Wikipedia

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   Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 is a 2021 anthology of essays, commentaries, personal reflections, short stories, and poetry, compiled and edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Conceived and created to commemorate the four hundred years that had passed since the arrival of the first Africans in ...

3. List of Black New York Times Best Selling Authors - Wikipedia

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   Dork Diaries Book 4: Tales From a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess: Rachel Renee Russell: October 2, 2012 Dork Diaries Book 5: Tales From a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All: Rachel Renee Russell: November 12, 2012 The Cartel 4: Ashley & JaQuavis: June 4, 2013 Dork Diaries Book 6: Tales From a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker: Rachel Renee Russell: October 1 ...

4. Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Wikipedia

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   It stimulated interest in African American genealogy and an appreciation for African American history. [1] Although Roots was originally described as fiction, it was sold in the non-fiction section of bookstores. Haley spent the last chapter of the book describing his research in archives and libraries to support his family's oral tradition ...

5. Lift Every Voice and Sing - Wikipedia

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   "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom ...

6. African-American folktales - Wikipedia

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   The book, Mojo Workin: The Old African American Hoodoo System, discusses the folk spirit High John the Conqueror whose spirit resides in the "High John the Conqueror root" in the Hoodoo tradition. [27] [28] In African-American folk stories, High John the Conqueror was an African prince who was kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in the United ...

7. African-American literature - Wikipedia

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   African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.