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defending all of his original points and to Genovese for inspiration and advice and for writing two essays in the book plus pieces by Herbert S. Klein and others give Elkin's false, vicious book a status it does not deserve. Criticism of Elkin's book by Howard N. Meyer, Herbert Aptheker, even the early Genovese in Science and Society in 1961 and E. Kaiser is not here. A far better book is American Slavery: The Question of Resistance edited by Bracey, Meier and Rudwick. Similarly Kenneth M. Stampp's "Rebels and Sambos: The Search for the Negro's Personality in Slavery" [Journal of Southern History, Aug. 1971] says that we can rely on slaveholders' records but not on what the slaves themselves said; attacks Aptheker's book on slave revolts and spends the rest of this long article examining the contented Sambo slave thesis of U.B. Phillips, Stanley Elkins, Eugene Genovese, Louis R. Harlan et al. The preoccupation of white historians with this phony thesis is really laughable. Why do white historians want to believe this? The slave's job was to get around  or escape as much inhuman slavery as he or she could in any way he or she could. His personality, real or faked, stemmed from that drive. Why is this simple concept so hard for white historians to understand? Stampp's The Peculiar Institution also accepts some of Elkin's views on slavery such as slavery's making children of slaves.)

Larrick, Nancy (editor). SOMEBODY TURNED ON A TAP IN THESE KIDS. New York: Delacorte Press viii; 178 pages. $5.95.

Lee, Dallas. THE COTTON PATCH EVIDENCE. New York: Doubleday. $5.95. (A book about Clarence Jordan and his interracial Koinonia farm experiment of some years in Americus, Ga.)

Lee, Don L. DYNAMITE VOICES I: BLACK POETS OF THE 1960's. Detroit: Broadside Press. 92 pages. $2.75 (paper). (Comments on Conrad Kent Rivers, Mari Evans, Margaret Danner, David Henderson, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Everett Hoagland and others. These young black poets can benefit from the friendly criticism and evaluation given here and in the magazine Black World. Other Broadside books are Frenchy J. Hodges's Black Wisdom [poetry], Clarence Major's Private Line, James W. Thompson's First Fire: Poems 1957-1960, Jon Eckels's Our Business in the Streets: Black Poetry, Gwendolyn Brook's A Broadside Treasury, 1965-1970 and Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology, Sonia Sanchez's It's A New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs and Life Styles [poetry] by Marion Nicholes.)

Littleton, Arthur C. and mart W. Burger (editors). BLACK VIEWPOINTS.
New York: New American Library. 459 pages. $1.50 (paper). (An anthology of writings by Blacks from Frederick Douglass to Huey Newton including Du Bois, Garvey, Wilkins, Cleaver, Kenneth Clark, Bobby Seale, etc.)

London, Joan and Henry Anderson. SO SHALL YE REAP: THE STORY OF CESAR CHAVEZ & THE FARM WORKER'S MOVEMENT. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell: Apollo Editions. xi; 208 pages. $6.95 (cloth); $2.45 (paper).

LOOK FOR ME IN THE WHIRLWIND: THE COLLECTIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW YORK 21. Introduction by Haywood Burns. New York: Random House. xv; 364 pages. $8.95 (cloth); $2.45 (paper). (This book was written in prison by 16 of 21 members of the Black Panther Party who were tried on conspiracy charges in New York City and acquitted.

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