James G. Basker

Oct 7, 2024 | lawliberty.org | James G. Basker |Lucas Morel |Jr. Professor |David Schaefer

Omission of the political opinions and literary creations of black Americans during the Founding era has produced an incomplete history of the birth and growth of the American republic that has distorted Americans’ self-understanding of who they are as a diverse but whole people.

Nov 14, 2023 | bookshop.org | Annette Gordon-Reed |James G. Basker |Nicole Seary

A radical new vision of the nation's founding era and a major act of historical recovery Featuring more than 120 writers, this groundbreaking anthology reveals the astonishing richness and diversity of Black experience in the turbulent decades of the American Revolution Black Writers of the Founding Era is the most comprehensive anthology ever published of Black writing from the turbulent decades surrounding the birth of the United States.