![]() ![]() The story begins in 1619-a year before the Mayflower-when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. Jones on Jamestown's first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences of poets Jericho Brown and Patricia Smith, Four Hundred Souls weaves a tapestry of unspeakable suffering and unexpected transcendence.”-O: The Oprah Magazine a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain’s impressive choir.”-The Washington Post “A vital addition to curriculum on race in America. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present-edited by Ibram X. ![]()
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