Uncovering the African Past: The Ivan Van Sertima Papers
Uncovering the African Past: The Ivan Van Sertima Papers is the third book in a trilogy by the well-known African-American scholar, Runoko Rashidi. In the...
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Pioneers Of The Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives, 1772-1815
In the eighteenth century, a small group of Black men met the challenge of the Enlightenment by mastering the arts and sciences and writing themselves...
Hole In The Head: A Life Revealed
Hole In The Head: A Life Revealed by Wilbert Smith, based on the award-winning documentary, is a compelling, highly moving, human-interest story that vividly conveys...
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2013. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo is a 2012 biography...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became...
The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas
In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and...
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
Creating Black Americans is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter...
Golden Age of the Moor
Golden Age of the Moor by Ivan Van Sertima is a collection of essays examining the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for the Renaissance and...
Introduction to African Civilizations
“The picture we get today of Africa in past ages from the history taught in our schools is that Africans were savages and that, although...
Capitalism and Slavery
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and...