Set against the tensions of Civil Rights era America, Dreamer is a remarkable fictional excursion into the last two years of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, when the political and personal pressures on this country's most preeminent mo...

Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing." Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism ...

From National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, "the celebrated novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and essayist…comes a small treasure, one to be read and considered and reread" (TheNew York Times Book Review), s...

One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives, they switch places in each other's beds. The result is a hilarious imbroglio and an offspring ...

The 12 stories collected here each regard the experiences of slaves and are based on historic fact. A young boy chained in a slave ship, a slave hunter searching for escapees, Quakers, slave owners, and slaves appear as characters in ...

Buddhism-influenced essays, stories, and reviews by National Book Award winner Charles R. Johnson.     This wide and varied collection of essays, reviews, and short stories by the renowned author Charles Johnson offers incisive...