Bearing Witness

Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century

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Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Random House, Inc

Due/Published July 1991, 400 pages, paper

ISBN 0679735208

This collection from the rich literature of African American autobiography documents the experience of being black in America, from slavery to present day, in the words of Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison, and forty other contributors.