African-American Classic Three Book Set - The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass/W. E. B. Du Bois

Complete African-American Classic Three Book Set, includes The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery , and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . The foundational civil rights works on race relations in America, the slave narratives, in their own voices. This is their story in one volume. From The Souls of Black Folk : "Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century.... I have sought here to sketch, in vague, uncertain outline, the spiritual world in which ten thousand thousand Americans live and strive." From Up From Slavery : "I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed." From the 1845 text Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: "My mother was named Harriet Bailey." "My father was a white man." "I have had two masters." "...my escape from slavery." All students of thought should get this historic set. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price. TABLE OF CONTENTS THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK 3 UP FROM SLAVERY 91 NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS 181