{"product_id":"we-were-never-less-the-defiant-ascent-of-black-america-9781949722321","title":"We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent of Black America","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eric Lawrence Frazier Mba\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Power Is Now Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Power Is Now Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: African American \u0026amp; Black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey didn't overcome. They were never less.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor four hundred years, the story told about Black America has begun from the wrong premise - that a people subjected to slavery, exclusion, and systematic destruction somehow rose above their condition. Eric Lawrence Frazier refuses that framing at the root.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Were Never Less\u003c\/i\u003e is not an inspiration story. It is a prosecution. Drawing on primary sources - plantation records, federal housing manuals, military dispatches, congressional testimony, and the published confessions of the architects themselves - Frazier documents what was done, who did it, and what a people built in spite of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen documentary essays trace the full arc: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe sophisticated civilizations of West and Central Africa that crossed the Atlantic in the bodies of enslaved people - and what that knowledge built when it arrived\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe race science and theology constructed to justify slavery - and how it kept producing evidence that contradicted its own conclusions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrederick Douglass not as orator but as strategist - and what his Fourth of July address actually argued\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe federal housing policy that engineered the racial wealth gap into the geography of every American city - documented in the government's own archives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe War on Drugs as documented racial suppression - including the on-record confession of the Nixon aide who designed it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe $1.8 trillion economy, nine billionaires, 8.6 million college degrees, and ten Fortune 500 CEOs that emerged anyway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 160-year industry built to make sure none of this was taught, remembered, or transmitted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the history February simplified. The record the curriculum condensed. The full accounting that the architects of suppression spent generations trying to ensure you would never find.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by a 63-year-old entrepreneur, minister, and 40-year veteran of mortgage banking who lived inside these systems - and who finally has the freedom to tell the complete truth about what he saw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery claim is sourced. The evidence comes not from the testimony of the oppressed but from the documents of the oppressors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Were Never Less. Not for one day in four hundred years.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Power Is Now Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891348979863,"sku":"9781949722321","price":2090.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781949722321.webp?v=1781183341","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/we-were-never-less-the-defiant-ascent-of-black-america-9781949722321","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}