{"product_id":"early-african-american-classics-9780553213799","title":"Early African-American Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass's\u003ci\u003e Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave \u003c\/i\u003e(1845) and excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois's \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e (1903), Harriet A. Jacobs's \u003ci\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself\u003c\/i\u003e (1861), Booker T. Washington's \u003ci\u003eUp from Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e (1901), and James Weldon Johnson's \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1912). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether read as records of African-American history, autobiography, or literature, these invaluable texts stand as timeless monuments to the courage, intellect, and dignity of those for whom writing itself was an act of rebellion--and whose voices and experiences would have otherwise been silenced forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdited and with an introduction by Anthony Appiah, who explains the distinctive American literary and cultural context of the time, this edition of \u003ci\u003eEarly African-American Classics\u003c\/i\u003e remains the standard by which all similar collections will inevitably be compared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bantam Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780553213799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.88h x 4.18w x 1.06d","brand":"Anthony Appiah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43049450209461,"sku":"9780553213799","price":6.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_73b2da64-4569-453d-a21b-f90fb3ae5d90.jpg?v=1689689778","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/early-african-american-classics-9780553213799","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}