The First 400: The color of profit, persecution, and perseverance

by D L Patterson

The First 400 illuminates the reality that debt peonage, convict leasing, sharecropping, and militarized policing were the spawns of antebellum slavery proving that the gist of this heinous practice has a shelf life which extends much further than Emancipation. From the account of possibly the first black autistic savant, an exploited blind musical genius and composer compared to Mozart and Beethoven who played at the White House and who Mark Twain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1654837725
• ISBN13: 9781654837723
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"