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

William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore w...

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

In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of Afric...

In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hu...

Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the 'talented tenth,' an Afri...

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, ...

'This is a book of stories,' writes Henry Louis Gates, 'and all might be described as 'narratives...

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 ...