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Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays
Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays Amiri Baraka 9780688210847 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking pl...
Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman
Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman Gerald L. Early 9781603293549 Nonfiction The Modern Language Association of America The Modern Language Association of America First performed in 1964, Amiri B...
Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano 0000000110225228 Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) was a freed slave and influential abolitionist. His autobiography, published in 1789, played a crucial role in ending the African slave tr...
Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers
Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers Kadija Sesay 9780951587720 Fiction Aurora Metro Books Aurora Metro Publications A landmark collection of plays for stage, screen, and radio, Six Plays by Bla...
Shackling Water
Shackling Water Adam Mansbach 9780385502054 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Written in a lyrical, exhilarating, and intoxicating style that brilliantly evokes the moods and cadences of jazz and...
House of Slaves & “Door of No Return”: Gold Coast
House of Slaves & “Door of No Return”: Gold Coast Edmund Abaka 9781592218264 Nonfiction Africa Research and Publications Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Though the pyramids of Egypt, the obelis...
The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making of A Slave
The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making of A Slave Kofi Ghanaba and Oyafunmike Ogunlano 9781930097223 Fiction Lushena Books Lushena Books AALBC.com Note: Despite the popularity of this title on our web...
Frantz Fanon’s Plays: The Plays
Frantz Fanon’s Plays: The Plays Frantz Fanon 9781350126572 Fiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest i...
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture Vincent Woodard 9780814794623 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Winner of the 2015 LGBT S...
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market Walter Johnson 9780674005396 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum Am...
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers 9780300251838 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press Winner of the Los Angeles Times...
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays Sonia Sanchez 9780822347781 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books "Sonia Sanchez remains one of the ...
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown 9781590795699 Nonfiction Select Books Select Books The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America Joshua D. Rothman 9781541616615 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten stor...
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Rebecca Hall 9781982115197 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post Part graphic novel, pa...
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History)
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History) John Hope Franklin 9780195160871 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The mat...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs 9780486419312 Fiction Dover Publications Dover Publications An Important Contribution to the Birth of African American Literature The true sto...
The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums And Colours, And The Haytian Earth
The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums And Colours, And The Haytian Earth Derek Walcott 9780374528133 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Plays by the Nobel-laureate...
Kwesi Oginga
Kwesi Oginga NONE Kwesi Oginga, born in Guyana, is a renowned dramatist, author, and pastor. He wrote plays for Guyana's top festivals, directed plays for the president's birthday, and has penned sev...
Classic Plays From The Negro Ensemble Company
Classic Plays From The Negro Ensemble Company Paul Carter Harrison and Cus Edwards 9780822955603 Fiction University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press This anthology celebrates more th...
August Wilson
August Wilson 0000000368634467 August Wilson (1945-2005), two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning African American playwright, is renowned for his Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of 10 plays each set in a unique ...
A Cleansing Flame
A Cleansing Flame Charles A. Davis 9780910671040 Fiction Path Press Path Press “This is an historical novel set in the Civil War. The relationship between the slave master and the slave was very close...
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith 0000000110491657 Anna Deavere Smith, born in 1950, is a renowned actress, playwright, author, and professor. Famous for her roles in 'The West Wing' and 'Nurse Jackie', she's also ...
Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup 9781476767345 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. An Important Contribution to the Birth of African American Literature The story that inspired the...
The Creole Affair: The Slave Rebellion That Led the U.S. and Great Britain to the Brink of War
The Creole Affair: The Slave Rebellion That Led the U.S. and Great Britain to the Brink of War Arthur T. Downey 9781442236615 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield The Creole Affair is ...
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka 0000000446460520 Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was a prolific 20th-century African American writer, poet, and Obie-winning playwright. Known for works such as “Blues People” a...
VIDEO: Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet
VIDEO: Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet Troy Johnson Article Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary PoetExhibit at Zambezi Bazaar in conjunction with the Leimert Park Book Fair.Ami...
Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet
Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet Poetry & Spoken Word AALBC.com mourns the loss of Amiri Baraka (https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Amiri+Baraka) Nov 9, 2014). More on the...
Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865
Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 William L. Andrews 9780197547311 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press “The distincti...
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Ilyon Woo 9781501191053 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who ...
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave – Breeding Industry
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave – Breeding Industry Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette 9781613738931 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press “Planters said that slavery ...
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition Erica Armstrong Dunbar 9781534416178 Nonfiction Aladdin Simon & Schus...
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route Saidiya Hartman 9780374531157 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the histo...
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America Sylviane A. Diouf 9780195311044 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press In...
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida Larry Eugene Rivers 9780252036910 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press This gripping study examines ...
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame Anne C. Bailey 9780807055137 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press It’s an awful story. It’s an awful story. Why do you want...
The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail Kristen Green 9781541675636 Nonfiction Seal Press Seal Press The inspiring true story of an ens...
A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said
A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said Omar Ibn Said 9780299249540 Nonfiction University of Wisconsin Press University of Wisconsin Press Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 177...
Sweetsmoke
Sweetsmoke Thumper Book Review When I heard of the novel Sweetsmoke by David Fuller, I was intrigued. The novel takes place during the Civil War, 1862, at its heart lays a murder mystery wi...
12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave Kam Williams 12-years-a-slave-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Chiwetel Ejiofor Stars in Adaptation of Solomon Northup’s Memoir In Theaters: Oct 18, 2013 Limited November 1,...
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books)
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books) Virginia Hamilton 9780679839972 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton’s powerful true acco...
Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome Kam Williams Book Review ’When African-Americans accept the deprecating accounts and images portrayed by the media, literature, music and the arts as a true ...
Andrea Hairston
Andrea Hairston 000000004096098X Andrea Hairston, an Afrofuturist novelist and playwright, is also the L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita at Smith College. With award-winning novels like 'Redwood a...
Dream On Monkey Mountain And Other Plays
Dream On Monkey Mountain And Other Plays Derek Walcott 9780374508609 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears thro...
Don’t Start Me to Talking… The Selected Plays of John O’Neal
Don’t Start Me to Talking… The Selected Plays of John O’Neal John O’Neal 9781559364195 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group A collection of eight plays by the acclaimed pe...
A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick and Other Plays
A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick and Other Plays Kia Corthron 9780578097497 Fiction NoPassport NoPassport A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick and Other Plays collects three fascinating, polit...
House Arrest and Piano: Two Plays
House Arrest and Piano: Two Plays Anna Deavere Smith 9781400033577 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House From the award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, two teeming, pungent cross-sectio...
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus Howard Zinn 9780807073261 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press World-renowned historian Howard Zinn has turned to ...
Three Plays: The Broken Calabash / Parables for a Season / The Reign of Wazobia (African American Life )
Three Plays: The Broken Calabash / Parables for a Season / The Reign of Wazobia (African American Life ) Osonye Tess Onwueme 9780814324455 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University P...
Adolphus, a Tale (Anonymous) & the Slave Son (The Caribbean Heritage Series)
Adolphus, a Tale (Anonymous) & the Slave Son (The Caribbean Heritage Series) Lise Winer 9789766401337 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press The Caribbean H...
Enslaved (Volume 1)
Enslaved (Volume 1) H. Victoria Hargro Atkerson 9781541159679 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Enslaved Summary The joys and sorrows, inflicted on an African princess and a member of her r...
Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup 0000000374327420 Born free, Solomon Northup was kidnapped into slavery in 1841, enduring this for 12 years in Louisiana. Regaining his freedom in 1853, he penned the memoir “Twelve Ye...
The Lost German Slave Girl
The Lost German Slave Girl Paige Turner Book Review Only the great American melting pot could provide a setting where an Australian author recounts the tale of an orphaned German immigrant who was ...
On the Way Back
On the Way Back Montague Kobbé 9781617754418 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Colorful detours into native lore, such as a rich Dutchman’s fabled courtship of a local beauty, strike grace notes th...
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life Ashley Bryan 9781481456906 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Using original slave auction and plantati...
The Book Of Night Women
The Book Of Night Women Marlon James 9781594488573 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the author shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize"An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review...
What Is Slavery to Me?: Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-apartheid South Africa
What Is Slavery to Me?: Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-apartheid South Africa Pumla Dineo Gqola 9781868145072 Nonfiction Wits University Press Wits University Press Much has been made about South A...
The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas
The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas Brooke N. Newman 9780063290976 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt For readers of Annette Gor...
Elizabeth Keckley
Elizabeth Keckley 0000000057594701 Elizabeth Keckley, born a slave in 1818, bought her freedom and became a leading figure in Washington society as a dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln. L...
Why We Shouldn’t Call Our Ancestors Slaves
Why We Shouldn’t Call Our Ancestors Slaves LaRue Nedd 9780985689605 Nonfiction FNNC Publishing FNNC Publishing There was a time when everyone thought that the world was flat.Because we have been bomba...
Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave Laban Carrick Hill 9780316107310 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group To us it is just dirt, the ground we walk on… But to Dave it...
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade Gerald Horne 9780814736890 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press During its heyday in the nineteenth ...
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade Hannah Durkin 9780063072992 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The ...
Breaking the Chains: African-American Slave Resistance
Breaking the Chains: African-American Slave Resistance William Loren Katz 9781644212653 Nonfiction Triangle Square Seven Stories Press Centering Black voices and slave narratives, this illustrated you...
Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad Betty DeRamus 9780743482646 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tal...
When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)
When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions) Henry Norman 9780486420707 Fiction Dover Publications Dover Publications More than 2,000 interviews with former ...
Princess F.L. Gooden
Princess F.L. Gooden NONE Born and raised in Atlanta, Princess F. L. Gooden is a gifted writer, poet, and dramatist. She started writing at a young age, and by 13, she had written and directed plays ...
Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron 0000000120176415 One of the most influential progenitors of rap music, Gil Scott-Heron’s aggressive, no-nonsense street poetry inspired a legion of intelligent rappers while his en...
The Red Letter Plays
The Red Letter Plays Suzan-Lori Parks 9781559361958 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group "In the Blood" is an extraordinary new play…It is truly harrowing…we can...
Intimate Apparel/Fabulation
Intimate Apparel/Fabulation Lynn Nottage 9781559362795 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group “Lynn Nottage’s work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities...
William Craft and Ellen Craft
William Craft and Ellen Craft MULTIPLE William and Ellen Craft, escaped slaves from Georgia, became famous fugitives in the 1840s. Disguised as a white man and his servant, they reached the North and...
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans John Bailey 9780871139214 Nonfiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. I...
Wench
Wench Thumper Book Review I had a feeling that even though we are educated enough in the institution of slavery, there are still aspects that take me by surprise. Dolen Perkins-Valdez debut...
Zetta Elliott
Zetta Elliott 000000003627950X Zetta Elliott, a Canadian-born Black feminist writer, is known for her poetry, plays, essays, and children's novels. She earned a PhD in American Studies from NYU, taug...
Jackie Sibblies Drury
Jackie Sibblies Drury NONE Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based playwright, known for plays including 'We Are Proud to Present...' and 'Really'. Her work has been showcased by prominent institut...
What Does Brown Mean To You?
What Does Brown Mean To You? Ron Grady 9780593462881 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House This joyously affirming picture book follows a young boy throughout his day as he plays, paints, a...
New Studies in the History of American Slavery
New Studies in the History of American Slavery Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie Camp 9780820326948 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press These essays, by some of the most p...
Crumbs From The Table Of Joy And Other Plays
Crumbs From The Table Of Joy And Other Plays Lynn Nottage 9781559362146 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group This collection includes Lynn Nottage’s best known work, Crumb...
Victor Séjour
Victor Séjour 0000000108710902 Juan Victor Séjour, born on June 2, 1817 in New Orleans, was a popular playwright and author. Raised by wealthy parents, he moved to Paris at 19 where he became part o...
Black Hands White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America
Black Hands White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America Robert Fleming Book Review Renee K. Harrison, an associate professor of African American and US religious history at Howard University, ...
From the Ashes: Six Solo Plays
From the Ashes: Six Solo Plays Shauntay Grant 9780369104465 Fiction Playwrights Canada Press Playwrights Canada Press From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together...
Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works
Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works Langston Hughes 9780826214775 Fiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri About the EditorLeslie Catherine Sanders is on the faculty at Y...
Plays for the Plague Year
Plays for the Plague Year Suzan-Lori Parks 9781636701813 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group A stunning collection of plays from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-L...
Black Hands White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America
Black Hands White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America Renee K. Harrison 9781506474670 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved w...
Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?
Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? Lorraine Hansberry 9780679755326 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Here are Lorraine Hansberry’s last three plays—Les B...
Black Fairy and Other Plays
Black Fairy and Other Plays Useni Eugene Perkins 9780883780770 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press A series of short plays for young children that can be used as a teaching tool.
Jestina’s Calypso and Other Plays (Caribbean Writers Series)
Jestina’s Calypso and Other Plays (Caribbean Writers Series) Earl Lovelace 9780435987510 Fiction Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Contains three plays which have a gift for catching the liveliness ...
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom David F. Walker 9780399581441 Fiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House A graphic novel biography of...
Collected Plays of Shay Youngblood
Collected Plays of Shay Youngblood Shay Youngblood 9781482588149 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The Collected Plays of Shay Youngblood includes Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery, Flying Blin...
Ishmael Reed: The Plays (American Literature)
Ishmael Reed: The Plays (American Literature) Ishmael Reed 9781564785510 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press The award-winning plays of one of the most celebrated and innovative American...
Plays by Mediterranean Women
Plays by Mediterranean Women Nawal El Saadawi 9780951587737 Fiction Aurora Metro Books Aurora Metro Publications A ground-breaking collection of astonishing plays by women from countries geographicall...
New Plays for the Black Theater
New Plays for the Black Theater Woodie King 9780883781241 Fiction Third World Press Third World Press An anthology of short plays of some of the well known and highly respected African American playwr...
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American’s Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American’s Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past Michael H. Cottman 9780517703281 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House ...
The Resurrection Of Nat Turner, Part 2: The Testimony: A Novel
The Resurrection Of Nat Turner, Part 2: The Testimony: A Novel Sharon Ewell Foster 9781416578123 Fiction Howard Books Howard Books The sequel to The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part I: The Witnesses s...
Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of the Biafra and the African Diaspora
Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of the Biafra and the African Diaspora Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy 9781592213580 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa Worl...
Flight from the Devil: Six Slave Narratives
Flight from the Devil: Six Slave Narratives William Loren Katz 9780865434141 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press During the early 19th century some African American me...
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass 0000000121171288 “Without Struggle… There Is No Progress!” —Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), born into slavery, was an influential abolit...
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation Larry Eugene Rivers 9780813033815 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida Winner of:• The Black Caucus of the Amer...
The REV. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life
The REV. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life Jermain Wesley Loguen 9781418116293 Nonfiction University of Michigan Library University of Michigan Library This work is a...
Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley 9780143039242 Nonfiction Penguin Classics Penguin Random House Originally published in 1868—when it was...