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...

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was the most important African American leader and intellectual of the nineteenth century.

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by other...

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

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

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...

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

by Olaudah Equiano

I BELIEVE it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the on...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Very many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves.

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 matt...

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.

Gone With the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O'Hara n'était pas d'une beauté classique, mais les hommes ne s'en apercevaient guere quand, å l'exemple des ju...

Lives

by Plutarch

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...