New York: Pantheon, 1976. First Edition (presumed), Second Printing. Hardcover. An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War. More
Boston: Beacon Press. With Lloyd L. Brown and an introduction by Sterling Stuckey. Reprint. Paperback. Robeson's international achievements as a singer and actor in starring roles on stage and screen made him the most celebrated black American of his day, but his outspoken criticism of racism in the United States..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2016. Reprint. Paperback. Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man -..... More
London: Vintage, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by the author and an introduction by Caryl Phillips 'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James Baldwin Gripping and furious, Native Son follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1995. First Printing. Trade Paperback. First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Reprint. Paperback. A retelling of the story of Moses serves as an allegory for the struggle of American Blacks for release from slavery. More
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