Former slaves describe their experiences in captivity and portray the harsh conditions faced by the slaves in everyday life in a volume that includes Frederick Douglass's remarkable autobiography, as well as The Life of Olaudah Equian...
The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1938-1...
Henry Louis GatesStudents of African American history, the Jim Crow era, and legacy of American racial discrimination will value this historical resource for African American travelers, now introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Traveling the country was...
From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished 'colored' world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entr...
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: Ameri...
Henry Louis GatesIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a tim...