Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the historical (slave) narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical...
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The Destruction of Black Civilization
A widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent—and the people of African descent in the United States and in the...
From Slavery to Freedom
From Slavery to Freedom -first published in 1947 and continually updated with more than three million copies have been sold – describes the rise of...
Roots
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who we are and where we came from....
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr. traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, the...
Two Thousand Seasons
“If there is only one book within this collection that one must read, this is it.” –Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books “That...
Stolen Legacy
Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy, by Dr. George G. M. James, first published in 1954 asserts that Greek philosophy is stolen Egyptian...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Born into the Maafa (slavery) in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential and distinguished African American of the nineteenth...
The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James is a classical study of the only successful slave revolt in...
Up From Slavery
“Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life (after slavery) we began at the top instead of...