Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution.

Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery.

This book innovatively and usefully describes the permutations of an ancient tradition as it exists in this modern day and age.

The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

This edition firmly locates Uncle Tom's Cabin within the context of African-American writing, and considers issues of race and the role of women.

Blending the fictional with the factual, this highly praised novel ranges from the warm shores of seventeenth-century Barbados to the harsh realities of the slave trade, and the cold customs of Puritanical New England.

The author of Tituba of Salem Village renders a compelling portrait of Harriet Tubman, one of the pioneers of the Underground Railroad--the system of safe houses and routes that led hundreds of slaves to freedom.