The Voice of a People

<p><strong><em>The Voice of a People: Speeches from Black America</em></strong><strong> is a collection of speeches from some of the leading African American intellectuals artists activists and organizers of the past three centuries. </strong></p><p>While many of their names���such as Booker T. Washington W. E. B. Du Bois and Frederick Douglass���will be familiar to most readers some���such as Jermain Wesley Loguen Randall Albert Carter and Samuel H. Davis���are less well known but no less important to the history of <strong>Black America</strong>.</p><p>The individuals whose voices make up this collection come from a range of professional and personal backgrounds. Many of them were born into slavery. Some escaped. Some were poets preachers ministers and bishops. Some were educators activists academics abolitionists and suffragists. All of them despite their differences contributed to the vibrant invaluable history of a people who first built this nation before fighting to reclaim its soul for future generations.</p> <p>Since our inception in 2020 Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. <p>With thousands of titles in our collection we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.</p>