This Black History Collection contains the brilliant works of Frederick Douglass (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), Harriet Ann Jacobs (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl), Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery) and W. E. B. Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk). African American history is the part of American history that looks at the history of African Americans or Black Americans.

Of the 10.7 million Africans who were brought to the Americas until the 1860s, 450 thousand were shipped to what is now the United States.

Enjoy the works of these four influential men, whose vision and ideas helped to shape modern society. All aspects of African American history and daily life are represented here, from the days of abolition and the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement and the current times. This is crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.

• Narrator: Rick Walz; Jowanna Lewis; Mark Bowen
• Listening Length: 27 hours 08 minutes 25 seconds