Black Writers of the Founding Era, an anthology featuring more than 120 writers

Can you believe it severely exploited, exhausted, beaten up and diseased illiterate slaves from Africa kept in hand shackles all the time were writers? Must be systemic racism! Caution: Irony, satire!

"Featuring more than 120 writers, this groundbreaking anthology reveals the astonishing richness and diversity of Black experience in the turbulent decades of the American Revolution

For too long, African Americans have been left out of the story of the nation’s founding, their voices absent from the memory and celebration of the creation of the American republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era—by far the richest and most expansive anthology of its kind ever assembled—restores these voices. The writings gathered here reveal the complexity and dynamism of African American life and culture in the period and show how the principles of the American Revolution were seized upon and enlarged by Black Americans from the very beginning."

Black Writers of the Founding Era - Library of America