{"product_id":"the-black-book","title":"The Black Book","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"seemore-2\" class=\"slot product-about 9781524763138 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"720\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Seventeenth-century sketches of Africans as they appeared to marauding European traders.  Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her Child.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"slot product-about 9781400068487 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"852\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1974, Middleton A. Harris and Toni Morrison led a team of gifted, passionate collectors in compiling these images and nearly five hundred others into one sensational narrative of the black experience in America—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Black Book. \u003c\/em\u003eNow in a newly restored hardcover edition,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Black Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eremains a breathtaking testament to the legendary wisdom, strength, and perseverance of black men and women intent on freedom. Prominent collectors Morris Levitt, Roger Furman, and Ernest Smith joined Harris and Morrison (then a Random House editor, ultimately a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Nobel Laureate) to spend months studying, laughing at, and crying over these materials—transcripts from fugitive slaves’ trials and proclamations by Frederick Douglass and celebrated abolitionists, as well as chilling images of cross burnings and lynchings, patents registered by black inventors throughout the early twentieth century, and vibrant posters from “Black Hollywood” films of the 1930s and 1940s. Indeed, it was an article she found while researching this project that provided the inspiration for Morrison’s masterpiece,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeloved\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA labor of love and a vital link to the richness and diversity of African American history and culture,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Black Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehonors the past, reminding us where our nation has been, and gives flight to our hopes for what is yet to come. 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