Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century
- ISBN-10
- 0679735208
- ISBN-13
- 9780679735205
- Series
- Bearing Witness
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
- Pages
- 385
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Authors
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Chair of Afro-American Studies Director Henry Louis Gates
Description
This collection from the rich literature of African American autobiography documents the experience of being black in America, from slavery to present day, in the words of Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison, and forty other contributors.
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- 1982
- 171 pages
- Paperback
- Pantheon Books
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- 2022-09-29
- 255 pages
- Ebook
- Cambridge University Press
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- 2022-08-31
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- SCM Press
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- 2021-05-05
- 271 pages
- Ebook
- Springer Nature
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