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...
Tag : African-American fiction
Middle Passage
Middle Passage (1990) is a historical novel by Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship. Set in 1830, it...
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....