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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Cover:Paperback Will life in the PeriwinkleA chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of historys great epics: the four hundred year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the presentedited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. The story begins in 1619a year before the Mayflowerwhen the White Lion disgorges some 20 and odd Negroes onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what