Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs · 1861
A woman’s testimony illuminates the price paid by families when law, ownership and intimate life collide.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass · 1845
A sustained encounter with testimony, literacy, resistance and the choices that make self-determination possible.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Phillis Wheatley · 1773
Enter the eighteenth-century world of a writer who claimed authorship despite a society organized to deny her intellectual autonomy.
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · 1892
An investigative voice confronts violence with evidence and demands that readers examine how public stories conceal institutional practices.
The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America
W. E. B. Du Bois · 1924
Explore how labor, cultural invention, art and civic action have shaped a nation whose familiar historical narratives often omit their makers.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano · 1789
A firsthand life narrative crosses the Atlantic, exposing the human machinery of enslavement and the struggle to reclaim authorship of one’s life.
The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
W. E. B. Du Bois · 1911
Bles and Zora meet at the edge of the swamps. Their story of education, intimacy and land exposes the hidden arithmetic of labor, ambition and power.
The Red Record
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · 1895
Who counts the lives a society chooses not to count? Wells-Barnett interrogates official explanations of racist violence through evidence, numbers and testimony.
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America
W. E. B. Du Bois · 1896
An archival investigation follows how laws, interests and institutions helped sustain a trade they publicly condemned.
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington · 1901
An educator’s account of building opportunities under formidable constraints, with important debates about vocational education, autonomy and public responsibility.
A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark
Africa Unite ! Une histoire du panafricanisme
Amzat Boukari-Yabara · 2014
Follow the events, people and institutions that shaped the intellectual and political history of the African world. This entry guides readers to the author’s verified bibliography for Africa Unite ! Une histoire du panafricanisme.
Binti
Nnedi Okorafor
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James
Ring Shout
P. Djèlí Clark
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Wole Talabi
The Bakala of North America: The Living Suns of Vitality
Asar Imhotep · 2009
A research-led reading path through language, cultural concepts and African intellectual history. Discover The Bakala of North America: The Living Suns of Vitality through the linked author or publisher record.
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
The Library of the Dead
T. L. Huchu
The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
Womb City
Tlotlo Tsamaase
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