Albery Allson Whitman was freed from slavery by the Emancipation Proclamation as a teenager, and went to school at Wilberforce University in Ohio. He became known as the “Poet Laureate of the Negro Race” for his epic poems about life on the frontier. In depictions of Black and Native peop...
Supporting Black and BIPOC authors and creators is important, today and every day. Here are some great books by Black writers you don't want to miss.
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It’s a gripping story, inspired by a famous abolitionist case, the true story of a woman who runs away from slavery with her children, but when the slave catchers catch up with her, she kills one of her own and tries to kill the others, rather than returning them to slavery.” Read...
In one of the book’s many absurdist twists, Me hires a Black slave to serve as his footstool and lobbies in America’s highest court for the reinstatement of segregation. Powered by a wicked wit, this caustic but heartfelt satirical novel turns themes of racism and slavery inside out in...
popular Dollar Store chains to the relatives of some of the United States’ most significant Black activists and historians, the South is home to more than just the stain of slavery; it is a focal point of much of our past because it has much to tell us about our present and our ...
about Cudjo’s past—memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard theClotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until...
Any of you that pay attention to my bookshelves or stay awake while I go on and on about my favorite authors know that McCann is top of the list, I would read a grocery list by this man… This book was not Let the Great World Spin good but it was well written, entertaining and ab...
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as well as in the Turks Islands andAntiguabefore landing in Great Britain. This book is a searing portrait of slavery both in Britain and its territories, and it is one woman’s fearless account of her life and the violence committed against her, which she told for one reason: to secure...