Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History 1513-2008.

GATES JR., Henry Louis.

$600.00

Item Number: 147096

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

First edition of this voluminous work of African American history. Square quarto, original boards, illustrated with over 700 full-color images. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For James with best wishes Henry Louis Gates Jr.” Additionally signed three times by legendary dust jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.

One of the most experienced researchers in genealogy, history, and historical genetics, Henry Louis Gates Jr. is credited for the rediscovery of the earliest known African-American novels and the production of significant histories of prominent American figures. In 'Life Upon These Shores,' "a distinguished scholar surveys, with lavish illustrations, five hundred years of the African American experience . . . From the conquistadors and the origins of slavery, through the Revolutionary period, the rise of abolitionism, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, both World Wars and the twentieth-century civil rights movement, up to President Obama's election, the supremely qualified Gates guides us through centuries of history" (Kirkus Reviews).