Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi with Keisha N. Blain

528 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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. It takes us to the present, when Af...

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informative 96%
reflective 65%
challenging 63%
emotional 49%
inspiring 32%
sad 24%
hopeful 22%
dark 17%
tense 9%
adventurous 2%

Pace

medium 57%
slow 30%
fast 12%

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