Four hundred souls: a community history of African America, 1619-2019

A community of souls : an introduction / by Ibram X. Kendi

Part one. 1619-1624 :

arrival / by Nikole Hannah-Jones

1624-1629 :

Africa / by Molefi Kete Asante

1629-1634 :

whipped for lying with a Black woman / by Ijeoma Oluo

1634-1639 :

tobacco / by Damaris B. Hill

1639-1644 :

Black women's labor / by Brenda E. Stevenson

1644-1649 :

Anthony Johnson, colony of Virginia / by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

1649-1654 :

the Black family / by Heather Andrea Williams

1654-1659 :

unfree labor / by Nakia D. Parker

Poem :

"upon arrival" / by Jericho Brown

Part two. 1659-1664 :

Elizabeth Keye / by Jennifer L. Morgan

1664-1669 :

the Virginia law on baptism / by Jemar Tisby

1669-1674 :

the royal African company / by David A. Love

1674-1679 :

Bacon's rebellion / by Heather C. McGhee

1679-1684 :

the Virginia law that forbade bearing arms

or the Virginia law that forbade armed self-defense / by

Kellie Carter Jackson

1684-1689 :

the code noir / by Laurence Ralph

1689-1694 :

the Germantown petition against slavery / by Christopher J. Lebron

1694-1699 :

the middle passage / by Mary E. Hicks

Poem :

"Mama, where you keep your gun?" / by Phillip B. Williams

Part three. 1699-1704 :

the selling of Joseph / by Brandon R. Byrd

1704-1709 :

the Virginia slave codes / by Kay Wright

1709-1714 :

the revolt in New York / by Herb Boyd

1714-1719 :

the slave market / by Sasha Turner

1719-1724 :

maroons and marronage / by Sylviane A. Diouf

1724-1729 :

the spirituals / by Corey D. B. Walker

1729-1734 :

African identities / by Walter C. Rucker

1734-1739 :

from Fort Mose to soul city / by Brentin Mock

Poem :

"before revolution" / by Morgan Parker

Part four. 1739-1744 :

the Stono rebellion / by Wesley Lowery

1744-1749 :

Lucy Terry Prince / by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

1749-1754 :

race and the enlightenment / by Dorothy E. Roberts

1754-1759 :

Blackness and indigeneity / by Kyle T. Mays

1759-1764 :

one Black boy : the Great Lakes and the Midwest / by Tiya Miles

1764-1769 :

Phillis Wheatley / by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

1769-1774 :

David George / by William J. Barber II

1774-1779 :

the American revolution / by Martha S. Jones

Poem :

"not without some instances of uncommon cruelty" / by Justin Phillip Reed

Part five. 1779-1784 :

Savannah Georgia / by Daina Ramey Berry

1784-1789 :

the U.S. Constitution / by Donna Brazile

1789-1794 :

Sally Hemings / by Annette Gordon-Reed

1794-1799 :

the fugitive slave act / by Deirdre Copper Owens

1799-1804 :

higher education / by Craig Steven Wilder

1804-1809 :

cotton / by Kiese Laymon

1809-1814 :

the Lousiana rebellion / by Clint Smith

1814-1819 :

queer sexuality / by Raquel Willis

Poem :

"remembering the Albany 3" / by Ishmael Reed

Part six. 1819-1824 :

Denmark vesey / by Robert Jones, Jr.

1824-1829 :

Freedom's Journal / by Pamela Newkirk

1829-1834 :

Maria Stewart / by Kathryn Sophia Belle

1834-1839 :

the national Negro conventions / by Eugene Scott

1839-1844 :

racial passing / by Allyson Hobbs

1844-1849 :

James McCune Smith, M.D. / by Harriet A. Washington

1849-1854 :

Oregon / by Mitchell S. Jackson

1854-1859 :

Dred Scott / by John A. Powell

Poem :

"compromise" / by Donika Kelly

Part seven. 1859-1864 :

Frederick Douglass / by Adam Serwer

1864-1869 :

the Civil War / by Jamelle Bouie

1869-1874 :

reconstruction / by Michael Harriot

1874-1879 :

Atlanta / by Tera W. Hunter

1879-1884 :

John Wayne Niles / by William A. Darity, Jr.

1884-1889 :

Philadelphia / by Kali Nicole Gross

1889-1894 :

lynching / by Crystal N. Feimster

1894-1899 :

Plessy v. Ferguson / by Blair L. M. Kelley

Poem :

"John Wayne Niles ... .

. . .- -.- ... / -

- Ermias Joseph Asghedom" / by

Mahogany L. Browne

Part eight. 1899-1904 :

Booker T. Washington / by Derrick Alridge

1904-1909 :

Jack Johnson / by Howard Bryant

1909-1914 :

the Black public intellectual / by Beverly Guy-Sheftall

1914-1919 :

the great migration / by Isabel Wilkerson

1919-1924 :

red summer / by Michelle Duster

1924-1929 :

the Harlem Renaissance / by Farah Jasmine Griffin

1929-1934 :

the Great Depression / by Robin D. G. Kelley

1934-1939 :

Nora Neale Hurston / by Bernice L. McFadden

Poem :

"coiled and unleashed" / by Patricia Smith

Part nine. 1939-1944 :

the Black soldier / by Chad Williams

1944-1949 :

the Black left / by Russell Rickford

1949-1954 :

the road to Brown v. Board of Education / by Sherrilyn Ifill

1954-1959 :

Black arts / by Imani Perry

1959-1964 :

the Civil Rights Movement / by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

1964-1969 :

Black power / by Peniel Joseph

1969-1974 :

property / by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

1974-1979 :

Combahee river collective / by Barbara Smith

Poem :

"and the record repeats" / by Chet'la Sebree

Part ten. 1979-1984 :

the war on drugs / by James Forman, Jr.

1984-1989 :

the hip-hop generation / by Bakari Kitwana

1989-1994 :

Anita Hill / by Salamishah Tillet

1994-1999 :

the crime bill

by

Angela Y. Davis

1999-2004 :

the Black immigrant / by Esther Armah

2004-2009 :

Hurricane Katrina / by Deborah Douglas

2009-2014 :

the Shelby ruling / by Karine Jean-Pierre

2014-2019 :

Black Lives Matter / by Alicia Garza

Poem :

"American Abecedarian" / by Joseph Bennett

Conclusion :

our ancestor's wildest dreams / by Keisha N. Blain

A community of souls : an introduction / by Ibram X. Kendi

Part one. 1619-1624 :

arrival / by Nikole Hannah-Jones

1624-1629 :

Africa / by Molefi Kete Asante

1629-1634 :

whipped for lying with a Black woman / by Ijeoma Oluo

1634-1639 :

tobacco / by Damaris B. Hill

1639-1644 :

Black women's labor / by Brenda E. Stevenson

1644-1649 :

Anthony Johnson, colony of Virginia / by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

1649-1654 :

the Black family / by Heather Andrea Williams

1654-1659 :

unfree labor / by Nakia D. Parker

Poem :

"upon arrival" / by Jericho Brown

Part two. 1659-1664 :

Elizabeth Keye / by Jennifer L. Morgan

1664-1669 :

the Virginia law on baptism / by Jemar Tisby

1669-1674 :

the royal African company / by David A. Love

1674-1679 :

Bacon's rebellion / by Heather C. McGhee

1679-1684 :

the Virginia law that forbade bearing arms

or the Virginia law that forbade armed self-defense / by

Kellie Carter Jackson

1684-1689 :

the code noir / by Laurence Ralph

1689-1694 :

the Germantown petition against slavery / by Christopher J. Lebron

1694-1699 :

the middle passage / by Mary E. Hicks

Poem :

"Mama, where you keep your gun?" / by Phillip B. Williams

Part three. 1699-1704 :

the selling of Joseph / by Brandon R. Byrd

1704-1709 :

the Virginia slave codes / by Kay Wright

1709-1714 :

the revolt in New York / by Herb Boyd

1714-1719 :

the slave market / by Sasha Turner

1719-1724 :

maroons and marronage / by Sylviane A. Diouf

1724-1729 :

the spirituals / by Corey D. B. Walker

1729-1734 :

African identities / by Walter C. Rucker

1734-1739 :

from Fort Mose to soul city / by Brentin Mock

Poem :

"before revolution" / by Morgan Parker

Part four. 1739-1744 :

the Stono rebellion / by Wesley Lowery

1744-1749 :

Lucy Terry Prince / by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

1749-1754 :

race and the enlightenment / by Dorothy E. Roberts

1754-1759 :

Blackness and indigeneity / by Kyle T. Mays

1759-1764 :

one Black boy : the Great Lakes and the Midwest / by Tiya Miles

1764-1769 :

Phillis Wheatley / by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

1769-1774 :

David George / by William J. Barber II

1774-1779 :

the American revolution / by Martha S. Jones

Poem :

"not without some instances of uncommon cruelty" / by Justin Phillip Reed

Part five. 1779-1784 :

Savannah Georgia / by Daina Ramey Berry

1784-1789 :

the U.S. Constitution / by Donna Brazile

1789-1794 :

Sally Hemings / by Annette Gordon-Reed

1794-1799 :

the fugitive slave act / by Deirdre Copper Owens

1799-1804 :

higher education / by Craig Steven Wilder

1804-1809 :

cotton / by Kiese Laymon

1809-1814 :

the Lousiana rebellion / by Clint Smith

1814-1819 :

queer sexuality / by Raquel Willis

Poem :

"remembering the Albany 3" / by Ishmael Reed

Part six. 1819-1824 :

Denmark vesey / by Robert Jones, Jr.

1824-1829 :

Freedom's Journal / by Pamela Newkirk

1829-1834 :

Maria Stewart / by Kathryn Sophia Belle

1834-1839 :

the national Negro conventions / by Eugene Scott

1839-1844 :

racial passing / by Allyson Hobbs

1844-1849 :

James McCune Smith, M.D. / by Harriet A. Washington

1849-1854 :

Oregon / by Mitchell S. Jackson

1854-1859 :

Dred Scott / by John A. Powell

Poem :

"compromise" / by Donika Kelly

Part seven. 1859-1864 :

Frederick Douglass / by Adam Serwer

1864-1869 :

the Civil War / by Jamelle Bouie

1869-1874 :

reconstruction / by Michael Harriot

1874-1879 :

Atlanta / by Tera W. Hunter

1879-1884 :

John Wayne Niles / by William A. Darity, Jr.

1884-1889 :

Philadelphia / by Kali Nicole Gross

1889-1894 :

lynching / by Crystal N. Feimster

1894-1899 :

Plessy v. Ferguson / by Blair L. M. Kelley

Poem :

"John Wayne Niles ... .

. . .- -.- ... / -

- Ermias Joseph Asghedom" / by

Mahogany L. Browne

Part eight. 1899-1904 :

Booker T. Washington / by Derrick Alridge

1904-1909 :

Jack Johnson / by Howard Bryant

1909-1914 :

the Black public intellectual / by Beverly Guy-Sheftall

1914-1919 :

the great migration / by Isabel Wilkerson

1919-1924 :

red summer / by Michelle Duster

1924-1929 :

the Harlem Renaissance / by Farah Jasmine Griffin

1929-1934 :

the Great Depression / by Robin D. G. Kelley

1934-1939 :

Nora Neale Hurston / by Bernice L. McFadden

Poem :

"coiled and unleashed" / by Patricia Smith

Part nine. 1939-1944 :

the Black soldier / by Chad Williams

1944-1949 :

the Black left / by Russell Rickford

1949-1954 :

the road to Brown v. Board of Education / by Sherrilyn Ifill

1954-1959 :

Black arts / by Imani Perry

1959-1964 :

the Civil Rights Movement / by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

1964-1969 :

Black power / by Peniel Joseph

1969-1974 :

property / by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

1974-1979 :

Combahee river collective / by Barbara Smith

Poem :

"and the record repeats" / by Chet'la Sebree

Part ten. 1979-1984 :

the war on drugs / by James Forman, Jr.

1984-1989 :

the hip-hop generation / by Bakari Kitwana

1989-1994 :

Anita Hill / by Salamishah Tillet

1994-1999 :

the crime bill

by

Angela Y. Davis

1999-2004 :

the Black immigrant / by Esther Armah

2004-2009 :

Hurricane Katrina / by Deborah Douglas

2009-2014 :

the Shelby ruling / by Karine Jean-Pierre

2014-2019 :

Black Lives Matter / by Alicia Garza

Poem :

"American Abecedarian" / by Joseph Bennett

Conclusion :

our ancestor's wildest dreams / by Keisha N. Blain