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Blain es historiadora y profesora, reconocida por su trabajo sobre el feminismo negro y los movimientos sociales afroamericanos.
Known for: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019
Four Hundred Souls es una historia colectiva de los afroamericanos desde 1619 hasta 2019, escrita por noventa escritores que narran cuatro siglos de lucha, resistencia y esperanza. Cada autor cubre un período de cinco años, ofreciendo una visión coral de la experiencia negra en Estados Unidos, desde la esclavitud hasta el movimiento por los derechos civiles y la actualidad.
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1619–1624: The Beginning of an American Wound
In these opening years, the arrival of the first enslaved Africans at Point Comfort, Virginia, under British colonial rule, marks a rupture that would redefine the hemisphere. Kendi and Blain remind us that the people who disembarked were not nameless cargo; they were Ndongo Africans, kidnapped thro...
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1625–1675: The Codification of Bondage and the Spark of Rebellion
As slavery spread across the colonies, the laws began to speak its language. Blackness was no longer merely an imposed condition—it became legislated. Statutes defined who could own, who could serve, and who could exist outside servitude. *Four Hundred Souls* details this transformation with piercin...
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Blain es historiadora y profesora, reconocida por su trabajo sobre el feminismo negro y los movimientos sociales afroamericanos.
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