Letters from Black America

by Pamela Newkirk

Book Overview

Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the pantheon of African American experience in the most intimate way possible-through the heartfelt correspondence of the men and women who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the 1700s to the twenty-first century, from slavery to the war in Iraq. ? The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters, this book includes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374101094
• ISBN13: 9780374101091
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"