![]() ![]() Instead it unlocks the startling range of experiences and ideas that have always existed within the community of Blackness. While themes of resistance and struggle, of hope and reinvention, course though the book, this collection of diverse pieces fundamentally deconstructs the idea that Africans in America are a monolith. They approach history from various perspectives: though the eyes of towering historical icons or the untold stories of ordinary people through places, laws, and objects. The writers explore their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics. ![]() Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a brief period of that four-hundred-year-span. Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume "community" history of African Americans. A chorus of extraordinary voices tells one of history's great epics: The four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619- a year before the Mayflower dropped anchor off Cape Cod, when the White Lion disgorged "some 20 and odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia- to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history. ![]()
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