While slave narratives are often excerpted and anthologized, they are rarely collected in their e...

Three years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Nar...

In Loose Canons, one of America's leading literary and cultural critics, Henry Louise Gates, Jr.,...

Renowned scholar and New York Times bestselling author Gates delivers a stirring and authoritativ...

Who are we, and where do we come from?The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the...

This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, ...

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from ...

These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced...

The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has ...

This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, ...

When newly-liberated African American slaves attempted to enter the marketplace and exercise thei...

This book, first published in 1984, is divided into two sections, thus clarifying the nature of b...