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Four Hundred Souls

An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Souls is a chronological account of four hundred years of Black America as told by ninety of America's leading Black writers.

Curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the number one bestseller How To Be an Antiracist, and fellow historian Keisha N. Blain, Four Hundred Souls begins with the arrival of twenty enslaved Ndongo people on the shores of the British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of the Mayflower.

In eighty chronological chapters, the book charts the tragic and triumphant four-hundred-year history of Black American experience in a choral work of exceptional power and beauty.

Contributors include some of the best-known scholars, writers, historians, journalists, lawyers, poets, and activists of contemporary America who together bring to vivid life countless new facets to the drama of slavery and resistance, segregation and survival, migration and self-discovery, cultural oppression and world-changing artistic, literary, and musical creativity. In these pages are dozens of extraordinary lives and personalities, rescued from the archives and restored to their rightful place in America's narrative, as well as the ghosts of millions more.

Four Hundred Souls is an essential work of storytelling and reclamation that redefines America and changes our notion of how history is written.

Three Guineas

2006

by Virginia Woolf

Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf explores the complex interconnections between gender, war, and intellectual freedom. The book is structured around three requests for a donation of a guinea: one for a women's college building fund, another for a society promoting professional women, and a third to help prevent war and protect culture and intellectual liberty.

Woolf's response is a profound meditation on the state of women's education and employment in the 1930s, questioning why education for women is so poorly supported and why women are discouraged from professional careers. She challenges the liberal orthodoxies of her time and presents discomforting arguments about the relationship between gender and violence.

This work is a pacifist-feminist essay whose message continues to resonate in contemporary global issues, making it a classic in feminist literature.

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