Complete
African-American Classic Three Book Set, includes
The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery
, and
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
.
The
foundational civil rights works on race relations in America, the slave narratives, in their own voices. This is their story in one volume.
From
The Souls of Black Folk
: “Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century…. I have sought here to sketch, in vague, uncertain outline, the spiritual world in which ten thousand thousand Americans live and strive.”
Up From Slavery
:
“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.”
From the 1845 text
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:
“My mother was named Harriet Bailey.” “My father was a white man.” “I have had two masters.” “…my escape from slavery.”
All students of thought should get this historic set. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK 3
UP FROM SLAVERY 91
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS 181