New York Times Bestseller | NAACP Image Award Nominee | Amazon's Top 20 History Books of 2023

From acclaimed columnist Michael Harriot -  a searingly smart, bitingly hilarious corrective to everything you were taught about American history.
America's official backstory is a whitewashed mythology: pilgrims, cherry trees, log cabins - and slaves who somehow just appeared, strong backs and spirituals in tow. It's a sugarcoated legend based on an almost-true story.

Black AF History tears off the sugarcoating. Drawing on primary sources and the work of pioneering Black historians, Harriot places Black Americans squarely at the center of the American story - where they've always belonged. From the Africans who arrived before 1619 to the unenslavable bandit who inspired America's first police force, this is the history that was always true, just never told.

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