{"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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":58348166021507,"sku":"9780553213799","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780553213799.jpg?v=1782657504","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/early-african-american-classics-9780553213799","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}