African-American stories

by John Patterson

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith

From slavery to freedom

by John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss Jr.

By the end of the twentieth century, it became commonplace for African Americans to speak and write sensitively of the l...

The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

by Olaudah Equiano

PERMIT me with the greatest deference and respect, to lay at your feet the following genuine Narrative; the chief design...

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Hace más de un siglo y medio que se publicó por vez primera 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Sl...

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

En este libro subyacen muchas cuestiones que, estudiadas con paciencia, pueden mostrar el extraño significado de ser neg...

Creating Black Americans

by Nell Irvin Painter

Black Sun Signs

by Thelma Balfour

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

I 24 WAS SPITEFUL.

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

The African-American odyssey

by Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.