Jones on Jamestown's first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed's portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences of poets Jericho Brown and Patricia Smith, Four Hundred Souls weaves a tapestry of unspeakable suffering and unexpected transcendence.'- O: The Oprah Magazine The story begins in 1619-a year before the Mayflower-when the White Lion disgorges 'some 20-and-odd Negroes' onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain's impressive choir.'- The Washington Post 'From journalist Hannah P. 'A vital addition to curriculum on race in America. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines - historians and artists, journalists and novelists-each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America'-īook Synopsis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present-edited by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star.

Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas-and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X.

About the Book 'A 'choral history' of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X.

Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi