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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
A Community of Souls: An Introduction by Ibram X. Kendi
Part One
1619–1624: Arrival by Nikole Hannah-Jones
1624–1629: Africa by Molefi Kete Asante
1629–1634: Whipped for Lying with a Black Woman by Ijeoma Oluo
1634–1639: Tobacco by DaMaris B. Hill
1639–1644: Black Women’s Labor by Brenda E. Stevenson
1644–1649: Anthony Johnson, Colony of Virginia by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
1649–1654: The Black Family by Heather Andrea Williams
1654–1659: Unfree Labor by Nakia D. Parker
Poem: "Upon Arrival" by Jericho Brown
Part Two
1659–1664: Elizabeth Keye by Jennifer L. Morgan
1664–1669: The Virginia Law on Baptism by Jemar Tisby
1669–1674: The Royal African Company by David A. Love
1674–1679: Bacon’s Rebellion by Heather C. Mcghee
1679–1684: The Virginia Law That Forbade Bearing Arms; or the Virginia Law That Forbade Armed Self-Defense by Kellie Carter Jackson
1684–1689: The Code Noir by Laurence Ralph
1689–1694: The Germantown Petition Against Slavery by Christopher J. Lebron
1694–1699: The Middle Passage by Mary E. Hicks
Poem: "Mama, Where You Keep Your Gun?" by Phillip B. Williams
Part Three
1699–1704: The Selling of Joseph by Brandon R. Byrd
1704–1709: The Virginia Slave Codes by Kai Wright
1709–1714: The Revolt in New York by Herb Boyd
1714–1719: The Slave Market by Sasha Turner
1719–1724: Maroons and Marronage by Sylviane A. Diouf
1724–1729: The Spirituals by Corey D. B. Walker
1729–1734: African Identities by Walter C. Rucker
1734–1739: From Fort Mose to Soul City by Brentin Mock
Poem: "Before Revolution" by Morgan Parker
Part Four
1739–1744: The Stono Rebellion by Wesley Lowery
1744–1749: Lucy Terry Prince by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
1749–1754: Race and the Enlightenment by Dorothy E. Roberts
1754–1759: Blackness and Indigeneity by Kyle T. Mays
1759–1764: One Black Boy: The Great Lakes and the Midwest by Tiya Miles
1764–1769: Phillis Wheatley by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
1769–1774: David George by William J. Barber II
1774–1779: The American Revolution by Martha S. Jones
Poem: "Not Without Some Instances of Uncommon Cruelty" by Justin Phillip Reed
Part Five
1779–1784: Savannah, Georgia by Daina Ramey Berry
1784–1789: The U.S. Constitution by Donna Brazile
1789–1794: Sally Hemings by Annette Gordon-Reed
1794–1799: The Fugitive Slave Act by Deirdre Cooper Owens
1799–1804: Higher Education by Craig Steven Wilder
1804–1809: Cotton by Kiese Laymon
1809–1814: The Louisiana Rebellion by Clint Smith
1814–1819: Queer Sexuality by Raquel Willis
Poem: "Remembering the Albany 3" by Ishmael Reed
Part Six
1819–1824: Denmark Vesey by Robert Jones, Jr.
1824–1829: Freedom’s Journal by Pamela Newkirk
1829–1834: Maria Stewart by Kathryn Sophia Belle
1834–1839: The National Negro Conventions by Eugene Scott
1839–1844: Racial Passing by Allyson Hobbs
1844–1849: James Mccune Smith, M.D. by Harriet A. Washington
1849–1854: Oregon by Mitchell S. Jackson
1854–1859: Dred Scott by john a. powell
Poem: "Compromise" by Donika Kelly
Part Seven
1859–1864: Frederick Douglass by Adam Serwer
1864–1869: The Civil War by Jamelle Bouie
1869–1874: Reconstruction by Michael Harriot
1874–1879: Atlanta by Tera W. Hunter
1879–1884: John Wayne Niles by William A. Darity, Jr.
1884–1889: Philadelphia by Kali Nicole Gross
1889–1894: Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster
1894–1899: Plessy V. Ferguson by Blair L. M. Kelley
John Wayne Niles Ermias Joseph Asghedom Mahogany L. Browne
Part Eight
1899–1904: Booker T. Washington by Derrick Alridge
1904–1909: Jack Johnson by Howard Bryant
1909–1914: The Black Public Intellectual by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
1914–1919: The Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
1919–1924: Red Summer by Michelle Duster
1924–1929: The Harlem Renaissance by Farah Jasmine Griffin
1929–1934: The Great Depression by Robin D. G. Kelley
1934–1939: Zora Neale Hurston by Bernice L. Mcfadden
Poem: "Coiled and Unleashed" by Patricia Smith
Part Nine
1939–1944: The Black Soldier by Chad Williams
1944–1949: The Black Left by Russell Rickford
1949–1954: The Road to Brown v. Board of Education by Sherrilyn Ifill
1954–1959: Black Arts by Imani Perry
1959–1964: The Civil Rights Movement by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
1964–1969: Black Power by Peniel Joseph
1969–1974: Property by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
1974–1979: Combahee River Collective by Barbara Smith
Poem: "And the Record Repeats" by Chet’la Sebree
Part Ten
1979–1984: The War on Drugs by James Forman, Jr.
1984–1989: The Hip-Hop Generation by Bakari Kitwana
1989–1994: Anita Hill by Salamishah Tillet
1994–1999: The Crime Bill by Angela Y. Davis
1999–2004: The Black Immigrant by Esther Armah
2004–2009: Hurricane Katrina by Deborah Douglas
2009–2014: The Shelby Ruling by Karine Jean-Pierre
2014–2019: Black Lives Matter by Alicia Garza
Poem: "American Abecedarian" by Joshua Bennett
Conclusion: Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams by Keisha N. Blain
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Notes
Contributors
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