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Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing This is the most comprehensive collection of writing by and about African-Americans ever to appear in one volume. Combining an extensive selection of poetry, prose, speeches, songs, documents, and letters dating from the pre-Colonial era through to the present day, it offers a testament to the pervasive influence of African-Americans on the political, creative, and cultural development of not just the United States but the whole world.

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Library Journal Review

This is an unusual array of writings by African Americans. Beginning with Olaudah Equiano's 1789 slave narrative and ending with Congresswoman Maxine Waters's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in 1992 on the Los Angeles riots, this welcome anthology brings together a diversity of voices. It includes fiction, autobiography, poetry, songs, and letters by such writers as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Many topics are covered, from slavery, education, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and political issues to spirituals, songs of the Civil Rights movement, and rap music. To conclude, there's the surprising addition of Jesse Jackson's 1984 address to the Democratic National Convention. This book supersedes Richard A. Long and Eugenia W. Collier's Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry (Pennsylvania State Univ. Pr., 1985). Essential for literary collections.-- Ann Burns, ``Library Journal'' (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Anthologies tend to be either literary or historical, but this substantial volume combines many forms of writing in an effort to mirror the African American experience in its entirety. The opening document is the personal narrative of one of the first Africans to arrive on the American continent, Olaudah Equiano, a scout and interpreter in the employ of Spanish explorers from 1527 to 1539. Early government papers record such events as the emancipation of slaves for military service during the American Revolution, while slave revolts are described in vivid letters written by rebels. The varied and expressive selections, introduced by informative editorial commentary, follow the course of history up through the Civil War, Reconstruction, the founding of the NAACP, and on into the civil-rights movement, the Vietnam War, and even the L.A. riots. Editorials from early African American newspapers are reprinted as are court opinions, song lyrics, and folktales. Essays, poems, and speeches by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, W .E. B. Du Bois, Gwendolyn Brooks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, and Alice Walker are some of the collection's highlights. ~--Donna Seaman

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Deirdre Mullane is a publicist, editor, publisher, agent, author, and founder of Mullane Literary Associates. She is the editor of Crossing the Danger Water and Words to Make My Dream Children Live .