{"product_id":"autobiography-of-a-people-isbn-9780385492799","title":"Autobiography of a People","description":"\u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a People\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience.  From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling historical portrait:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Banneker on Thomas Jefferson\u003cbr\u003eOld Elizabeth on spreading the Word \u003cbr\u003eFrederick Douglass on life in the North \u003cbr\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois on the Talented Tenth \u003cbr\u003eMatthew Henson on reaching the North Pole \u003cbr\u003eHarriot Jacobs on running away\u003cbr\u003eJames Cameron on escaping a mob lyniching\u003cbr\u003eAlvin Ailey on the world of dance\u003cbr\u003eLangston Hughes on the Harlem Renaissance \u003cbr\u003eCurtis Morriw on the Korean War\u003cbr\u003eMax ROach on \"jazz\" as a four-letter word\u003cbr\u003eLL Cool J on rap\u003cbr\u003eMary Church Terrell on the Chicago World's Fair\u003cbr\u003eRev. Bernice King on the future of Black America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd many others.\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart I.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PRE-REVOLUTIONARY VOICES\u003cbr\u003e James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1710–?)\u003cbr\u003e Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797) \u003cbr\u003e Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)\u003cbr\u003e Lemuel Haynes (1753–1833) \u003cbr\u003e John Cuffe (c. 1755–?)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart II.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THE LORD WILL PROVIDE\u003cbr\u003e Richard Allen (1760–1831)\u003cbr\u003e Old Elizabeth (1766–?)\u003cbr\u003e Jupiter Hammon (c.1711–1806)\u003cbr\u003e Belinda (c. 1717–?) \u003cbr\u003e Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)\u003cbr\u003e Prince Hall (1748–1797) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart III.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FROM THE COTTON PATCH TO THE BIG HOUSE\u003cbr\u003e Jenny Proctor (c. 1845–?) \u003cbr\u003e Peter Williams (?–1849) \u003cbr\u003e Abd ar-Rahman (c. 1790–?) \u003cbr\u003e Austin Steward (1793–1860)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart IV.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LET YOUR MOTTO BE RESISTANCE!\u003cbr\u003e Nat Turner (1800–1831) \u003cbr\u003e Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882)\u003cbr\u003e Harriet Jacobs (1815?–1897) \u003cbr\u003e Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) \u003cbr\u003e John Parker (1827–1900) \u003cbr\u003e Osborne Anderson (1830–1872) \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart V.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BLUE AND THE GRAY\u003cbr\u003e Mattie J. Jackson (1800–?) \u003cbr\u003e William Wells Brown (1814–1884) \u003cbr\u003e Robert Purvis (1810–1898) \u003cbr\u003e Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) \u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Keckley (1824–1907) \u003cbr\u003e John Boston (c. 1842–?) 126\u003cbr\u003e Charlotte Forten (1837–1914) 127\u003cbr\u003e Ann (c. 1835–?) \u003cbr\u003e Octave Johnson (1840–?)\u003cbr\u003e Patsey Leach (1843–?) \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart VI.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NO LAND, NO MULES, AND FOR MILLIONS, NO VOTE\u003cbr\u003e John Mercer Langston (1829–1879) \u003cbr\u003e Sojourner Truth (c.1797–1883) \u003cbr\u003e Samuel Larkin (c. 1840–?) \u003cbr\u003e John R. Lynch (1847–1939) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart VII.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e DAWN OF A NEW CENTURY\u003cbr\u003e Booker T. Washington (1857?–1915) \u003cbr\u003e Lewis Latimer (1848–1928) \u003cbr\u003e Henry McNeal Turner (1834–1915) \u003cbr\u003e Anna Julia Cooper (1858\/9–1964) \u003cbr\u003e Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) \u003cbr\u003e Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) \u003cbr\u003e Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart VIII.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e AND SOME OF US ARE BOLD\u003cbr\u003e James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) \u003cbr\u003e W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) \u003cbr\u003e Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862–1931) \u003cbr\u003e Matthew Henson (1866–1955) \u003cbr\u003e Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton (1890–1941)\u003cbr\u003e Jack Johnson (1878–1946) \u003cbr\u003e Ethel Waters (1896–1977) \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart IX.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SEEKING A WIDER WORLD\u003cbr\u003e Addie Hunton (1875–1943)\u003cbr\u003e Harry Haywood (1898–1985) \u003cbr\u003e Era Bell Thompson (1906–1986) \u003cbr\u003e Dorothy West (1909–1998) \u003cbr\u003e Richard Wright (1908–1960) \u003cbr\u003e Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart X.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND BEYOND\u003cbr\u003e Langston Hughes (1898–1967) \u003cbr\u003e Howard ‘‘Stretch’’ Johnson (1915–2000) \u003cbr\u003e Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) \u003cbr\u003e Paul´ı Murray (1910–1985) \u003cbr\u003e Nate Shaw (c. 1900– ) \u003cbr\u003e Haywood Patterson (1913–1952) \u003cbr\u003e James Cameron (1914–2006) \u003cbr\u003e Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908–1972) \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart XI.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ON THE HOME FRONT\u003cbr\u003e Conrad Lynn (1908–1995) \u003cbr\u003e Marian Anderson (1900–1993) \u003cbr\u003e Nelson Peery (1923–2015) \u003cbr\u003e Althea Gibson (1927–2003) \u003cbr\u003e A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979) \u003cbr\u003e Clarence Atkins (1922– ) \u003cbr\u003e Charles Denby (1907–1983) \u003cbr\u003e Maya Angelou (1928–2014) \u003cbr\u003e Coleman Young (1918–1998) \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart XII.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM\u003cbr\u003e Curtis Morrow (1933– ) \u003cbr\u003e Jane (1914– )\u003cbr\u003e Paul Robeson (1898–1976) \u003cbr\u003e Sunnie Wilson (1908–1999) \u003cbr\u003e Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) \u003cbr\u003e Constance Baker Motley (1921–2005) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart XIII.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e AIN’T GONNA LET NOBODY TURN US AROUND\u003cbr\u003e Rosa Parks (1913–2005) \u003cbr\u003e Ella Baker (1903–1986) \u003cbr\u003e James Forman (1928–2005) \u003cbr\u003e Melba Pattillo Beals (1942– ) \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart XIV.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e BREAKTHROUGHS AND PERSONAL INTIMACIES\u003cbr\u003e Ossie Davis (1917–2005) and Ruby Dee (1924–2014) \u003cbr\u003e Anne Moody (1940– ) \u003cbr\u003e Sharon Robinson (1950– ) \u003cbr\u003e Malcolm X (1925–1965) \u003cbr\u003e General Gordon Baker (1942–2014) \u003cbr\u003e Gordon Parks (1912–2006) \u003cbr\u003e David Parks (1944– ) \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart XV.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE\u003cbr\u003e Kwame Ture (1941–1998) \u003cbr\u003e Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) \u003cbr\u003e H. Rap Brown (1943– ) \u003cbr\u003e Angela Davis (1944– ) \u003cbr\u003e George Jackson (1941–1971) \u003cbr\u003e Elaine Brown (1943– ) \u003cbr\u003e Randall Robinson (1941–2023) \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart XVI.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A WAY WITH WORDS\u003cbr\u003e LL Cool J (1968– ) \u003cbr\u003e Johnnie Cochran (1938–2005)\u003cbr\u003e Margaret Walker (1915–1998) \u003cbr\u003e Lee Stringer (1950– ) \u003cbr\u003e Sam Fulwood (1956– ) \u003cbr\u003e Tyrone Powers (1961– ) \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart XVII.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e BITTER THE CHASTENING ROD\u003cbr\u003e Audre Lorde (1934–1993) \u003cbr\u003e Jill Nelson (1953– ) \u003cbr\u003e Johnnetta B. Cole (1936– )\u003cbr\u003e Max Roach (1924– ) \u003cbr\u003e Alvin Ailey (1931–1989) \u003cbr\u003e Colin L. Powell (1937– ) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart XVIII.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!”\u003cbr\u003e Al Sharpton (1954– ) \u003cbr\u003e Bari-Ellen Roberts (1953– ) \u003cbr\u003e Anita Hill (1950– ) \u003cbr\u003e Gary Franks (1953– ) \u003cbr\u003e James McBride (1957– ) \u003cbr\u003e Mumia Abu-Jamal (1956– ) \u003cbr\u003e Kevin Powell (1966– ) \u003cbr\u003e Rev. Bernice King (1963– )\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\"A book of historical truth spoken loud and clear, as none of us have ever quite heard it before.\"-\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A superbly crafted collection.\"-\u003ci\u003eQBR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"An original and triumphant collection of first-person narratives from autobiographies, memoirs, journal writings, correspondence, and slave narratives... The number of selections makes for an impressive and eclectic chorus.\"-\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003eHerb Boyd is the coeditor with Robert Allen of\u003ci\u003e Brotherman—The Odyssey of Black Men in America\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of Down the Glory Roa\u003ci\u003ed \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlack Panthers for Beginners.\u003c\/i\u003e An award-winning journalist, his articles have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAmsterdam News, Black Scholar, Code, Down Beat, Emerge, Metro Times\u003c\/i\u003e (Detroit), and \u003ci\u003eThe Source.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the national editor of \"The Black World Today,\" an online publication, and he teaches at the College of New Rochelle and New York University.\u003cb\u003ePre-Revolutionary Voices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfrican captives, ruthlessly torn from their homeland, registered their complaint in a number of ways, most violently in countless mutinies aboard the slave ships that plied the Atlantic during the brutal Middle Passage. Much of what we know of these bloody episodes has been distilled from the logs and journals of the slave captains, particularly such notorious slavers as Captain Canot, John Hawkins, and John Newton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese records, however, provide scarcely any information about African tribal life or the circumstances of the captives before they were marched off to the coastal fortresses and subsequently crammed into the fetid holds of the ships. It is from a few priceless slave narratives that we gather some notion of what village life was like in certain regions of West Africa in the latter part of the eighteenth century. James Albert (Ukawsaw Gronniosaw) was the rambunctious grandson of the King of Bornu. From his narrative we are afforded a brief glimpse of African life and the events that led to his captivity. A restless and inquisitive young man, Gronniosaw's preoccupation with the existence of a Supreme Being will follow and sustain him throughout his ordeal. As we will see in many of the selections in this book, God and religion are common topics for an oppressed people seeking liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOlaudah Equiano also credits the Creator for helping him survive the hellish experience of being sold into slavery. Equiano, who also went by the name Gustavus Vassa, wrote perhaps the most anthologized slave narrative. His vivid reminiscence of village life in his native Guinea is hardly exhaustive but does give the reader an excellent idea of the African life so many were forced to leave behind. Among his most remarkable and painful stories is the one included here, which tells of the horrors he witnessed aboard the slave ship that carried him from his homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough Phillis Wheatley was also born in Africa, she never wrote a slave narrative. Her two most famous poems signify a complex but conflicted writer who was ambiguous about her African heritage. While it is not certain why she began to write poetry, it may have been to emulate Alexander Pope and other favorites from the neoclassical tradition. Her critics contend she failed to express a stronger concern for the plight of her people; her supporters that it is necessary to read between the lines to detect her subversive intentions. Whatever the case, we cannot ignore the role she played as a literary pioneer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNoted for being America's first black preacher to an all-white congregation, Lemuel Haynes wrote the \"ballad\" that follows in a burst of patriotic pride. Though he did not participate in the Battle of Lexington, he hurried to the scene shortly after it occurred. Unwavering in his critique of slavery, he often noted the hypocrisy of slaveholders protesting British oppression. Even now, 225 years later, the defiant message of Haynes's poem (shortened for this book) still resonates with power and conviction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than five thousand African Americans fought in the Revolutionary War, and a good number of them--Peter Salem, Salem Poor, Barzillai Lew, and Pomp Blackman--did so with great honor. Unfortunately, distinguishing themselves on the battlefield did not automatically confer citizenship to the veterans and their families. Many petitions were launched by African Americans such as John and Paul Cuffe and others in 1780, asserting \"no taxation without representation.\" By 1815, the latter Cuffe, a prosperous ship owner, had given up on the States and become an ardent colonizationist and at his own expense transported thirty-eight African Americans to Sierra Leone, many of whom worked as missionaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, Written by Himself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAFRICA AND NEW YORK, 1720-1730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI WAS BORN IN THE CITY OF BAURNOU, my mother was the eldest daughter of the reigning King there. I was the youngest of six children, and particularly loved by my mother, and my grand-father almost doated on me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI had, from my infancy, a curious turn of mind; was more grave and reserved, in my disposition, than either of my brothers and sisters, I often teazed them with questions they could not answer; for which reason they disliked me, as they supposed that I was either foolish or insane. 'Twas certain that I was, at times, very unhappy in myself: It being strongly impressed on my mind that there was some GREAT MAN of power which resided above the sun, moon and stars, the objects of our worship.--My dear, indulgent mother would bear more with me than any of my friends beside.--I often raised my hand to heaven, and asked her who lived there? Was much dissatisfied when she told me the sun, moon and stars, being persuaded, in my own mind, that there must be some Superior Power.--I was frequently lost in wonder at the works of the creation: Was afraid, and uneasy, and restless, but could not tell for what. I wanted to be informed of things that no person could tell me; and was always dissatisfied.--These wonderful impressions began in my childhood, and followed me continuously till I left my parents, which affords me matter of admiration and thankfulness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this moment I grew more and more uneasy every day, insomuch that one Saturday (which is the day on which we kept our sabbath) I laboured under anxieties and fears that cannot be expressed; and, what is more extraordinary, I could not give a reason for it.----I rose, as our custom is, about three o'clock (as we are obliged to be at our place of worship an hour before the sun rise) we say nothing in our worship, but continue on our knees with our hands held up, observing a strict silence till the sun is at a certain height, which I suppose to be about 10 or 11 o'clock in England: When, at a certain sign made by the Priest, we get up (our duty being over) and disperse to our different houses.--Our place of meeting is under a large palm tree; we divide ourselves into many congregations; as it is impossible for the same tree to cover the inhabitants of the whole city, though they are extremely large, high and majestic; the beauty and usefulness of them are not to be described; they supply the inhabitants of the country with meat, drink and clothes; the body of the palm tree is very large; at a certain season of the year they tap it, and bring vessels to receive the wine, of which they draw great quantities, the quality of which is very delicious: The leaves of this tree are of a silky nature; they are large and soft; when they are dried and pulled to pieces, it has much the same appearance as the English flax, and the inhabitants of Bournou manufacture it for clothing, \u0026amp;c. This tree likewise produces a plant, or substance, which has the appearance of a cabbage, and very like it, in taste almost the same: It grows between the branches. Also the palm tree produces a nut, something like a cocoa, which contains a kernel, in which is a large quantity of milk, very pleasant to the taste: The shell is of a hard substance, and of a very beautiful appearance, and serves for basons, bowls, \u0026amp;c. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout this time there came a merchant from the Gold Coast (the third city in Guinea) he traded with the inhabitants of our country in ivory, \u0026amp;c. he took great notice of my unhappy situation, and inquired into the cause; he expressed vast concern for me, and said, if my parents would part with me for a little while, and let him take me home with him, it would be of more service to me than any thing they could do for me.--He told me that if I would go with him I should see houses with wings to them walk upon the water, and should also see the white folks; and that he had many sons of my age, which should be my companions; and he added to all this that he would bring me safe back again soon.--I was highly pleased with the account of this strange place, and was very desirous of going. . . .","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304363774181,"sku":"NP9780385492799","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385492799.jpg?v=1767721973","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/autobiography-of-a-people-isbn-9780385492799","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}