edited by historians Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. (2021)

I taught African American Literature (foregrounded in the context of its history) for 30+ years, and this book blew me away in combining what/who we don't know with what we know. I had no idea how much more I would learn by reading it.

I also recommend 1619, but I think 400 Souls is more of a page turner.

A good place to start is, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee." A few other suggestions "Stolen Continents", "Black Hills, White Justice", "Custer Died For Your Sins", and, "Killers of the Flower Moon," (Just saw the movie--the book is better.)

before he retired, was the Head of Indian Studies at a University. Taught history. So am familiar with some of what you recommended. Will check out Stolen Continents though. Mostly seeking trans- continental slavery based and related.
Good to know your thoughts about Killers of the Flower Moon movie vs book. On the good side if anything, it is showing at a newly renovated old theatre in this most conservative town right now. Might be good for educational purposes though, eh?

Your husband probably knows all about it. Beautifully organized by city and region, and their cultural influence on those places today.

Thx

Very enlightening. Read it when I was pretty young and undereducated. Shocked to learn that slaves were not allowed to be taught to read---can't imagine life without reading. Echoes of the Afghanistan Taliban attempts to keep women uneducated.

I may need to make that my birthday gift to myself.

I think it's Mansfield Park.

There's a movie in that time period about a black daughter of a wealthy Englishman being raised by his family after his death. Very Austen but about a young woman of color who has money trying to cope in that society. It's called "Belle,"

We are reading Paula Bryne's book Belle. The Slave daughter and The Lord Chief Justice.
The movie is good and yet encased in a palatable form of viewing for some which is not always so bad.
Paula was also one of the consultants on PBS's Sanditon. She is a nice person.

abolitionists. She was aware of slavery most certainly as was also indicated by her unfinished 11 Chaptered Sanditon. Which btw, I will recommend the tv series.
And yes, Mansfield Park.

Am distraught over Clarance Thomas having his Bible. Or one of them. Ugh.