Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by th...

A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath ...

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 discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Nar...

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

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...

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

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...