کتاب Early AfricanAmerican Classics Original This essential onevolume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by AfricanAmerican writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries   Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglasss Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave 1845 and excerpts from WEB DuBoiss The Souls of Black Folk 1903 Harriet A Jacobss Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself 1861 Booker T Washingtons Up from Slavery 1901 and James Weldon Johnsons The Autobiography of an ExColoured Man 1912   Whether read as records of AfricanAmerican history autobiography or literature these invaluable texts stand as timeless monuments to the courage intellect and dignity of those for whom writing itself was an act of rebellionand whose voices and experiences would have otherwise been silenced forever   Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Appiah who explains the distinctive American literary and cultural context of the time this edition of Early AfricanAmerican Classics remains the standard by which all similar collections will inevitably be compared