Download or read book Pioneers Of The Black Atlantic written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 1998-11-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 18th century a small group of black men defied the prohibition on learning and mastered the arts and sciences thereby writing themselves into history. Their autobiographies were published in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.