Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Cover:Paperback is drowning

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Will life in the Periwinkle Tower ever be as fabulous as it was before

Across the way lives Ma Charles’s half sister

Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science

“The well-paced plot leads to an ending that provides just enough closure to satisfy and a clear opening for a third book

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Cover:Paperback is drowningA chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of historys great epics: the four hundred year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the presentedited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. The story begins in 1619a year before the Mayflowerwhen the White Lion disgorges some 20 and odd Negroes onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what