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."
From 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