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