The Black Book -

Middleton A. Harris, Morris Levitt, Roger Furman, Ernest Smith

Random House

2019

198 páginas

6h 36m

ISBN-13: 9781400068487

Seventeenth-century sketches of Africans as they 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 1976, Middleton A. Harris and Toni Morrison led a team of gifted, passionate collectors in compiling these images of nearly five hundred others into the sensational narrative of the black experience in America - "The Black Book". (...)

A labor of love and a vital link to the richness and diversity of African American history and culture, "The Black Book" honors the past, reminding us where our nation has been, and gives flight to our hopes for what is yet to come. Beautifully and faithfully presented and featuring a foreword and an original poem by Toni Morrison, "The Black Book" remains a timeless landmark work.