Black Authors

Slave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the ...

The Marrow of Tradition, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we ha...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preserva...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preserva...

The book "" The Book of American Negro Poetry, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten...

Unabridged English value reproduction of The Life of Olaudah Equiano. This classic is a must read because Olaudah writes as if the reader is right ...

Unabridged English value reproduction of The Life of Olaudah Equiano. This classic is a must read because Olaudah writes as if the reader is right ...

Rita Dove served as poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995. She has been awarded many literary and academic honours, including the Pu...

This memoir is a slave narrative, travel tale, and spiritual journey all-in-one...his life is a tale of terror as well as an exciting adventure.Pro...

2015 Reprint of 1925 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Alain Locke is the acknowle...

Poet, playwright, and novelist, graduate of DeWitt Clinton High, New York University, and Harvard University, Countee Cullen (1903-1946) emerged as...

Published in 1789, Equiano's autobiography was the first of its kind to influence a wide audience. He told the story of his life and suffering as a...

If I ever wavered under the consideration, that the Almighty, in some way, ordained slavery, and willed my enslavement for his own glory, I wavered...

This is the classic history of the African peoples in Africa and the New World, a repudiation of the absurd belief, widely held in the post-Civil W...

Published in 1789, Equiano's autobiography was the first of its kind to influence a wide audience. He told the story of his life and suffering as a...

he necessity for the race's learning the difference between being worked and working. He would not confine the Negro to industrial life, but believ...

Fifty interesting short stories including Diogenes the Wise Man, Alexander and Bucephalus, Socrates and His House, Julius Cesar, The Blind Men and ...

African-American scholars have cited James Weldon Johnson's 1927 book of poems, "God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse" as one of the autho...

First published in 1925, "The New Negro" is Alain Locke's compilation of important works by early twentieth-century African American writers. Exhib...

Born in West Africa in approximately 1753, Wheatley was sold into slavery as a child and transported to the American colonies in 1761. She was boug...

First published in 1834, this volume contains a collection of memoirs and poems by Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784). Wheatley was an American freed ...

First published in 1899, "Lyrics of the Hearthside" is a collection of poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Dunbar was an American novelist,...

This moving collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley is intended to inspire Christians and tribute various believers who had recently been deceased....