Dear readers, I’ve written many books on a variety of subjects: on jailhouse lawyers, on history, on Black liberation, and other topics. As a general rule, I don’t brag about my books for, in a way, the books speak for themselves. However, today I make an exception. Today I write to introduce a work edited by me and my co-editor Dr. Jennifer Black, an African-American literature scholar. We pulled together work from the annals of popular resistance history, from slave revolts to prison revolts, from women’s struggles to Native American struggles, from workers, radicals and revolutionaries. This new compilation is called Beneath the Mountain because that’s where we found these freedom fighters and resistance fighters, beneath the mountain of repression, and it has been virtually flying off the shelves. There are great names here, like Nat Turner the great slave leader, John Brown the abolitionist, from first nations people like Crazy Horse to Geronimo. Over 30 people are featured here in this work. I hope you enjoy it if only half as much as we enjoyed bringing it straight to you.
With love not fear, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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