Bibliograph

Black ink, literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing, edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni

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Black ink, literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing, edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

Black ink

Responsibility statement

edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni

Sub title

literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing

Summary

Spanning 250 years, a collection highlights the hard-won literary progress of black people in America, who were once forbidden by law to learn how to read, with essays from Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Booker T. Washington, Maya Angelou and many more

Target audience

adult

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Literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing

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