Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution.

This book innovatively and usefully describes the permutations of an ancient tradition as it exists in this modern day and age.

Published in the bicentenary year of Frederick Douglass’s birth and in a Black Lives Matter era, this edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass presents new research into his life as an activist and an author.

The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

This edition firmly locates Uncle Tom's Cabin within the context of African-American writing, and considers issues of race and the role of women.

Blending the fictional with the factual, this highly praised novel ranges from the warm shores of seventeenth-century Barbados to the harsh realities of the slave trade, and the cold customs of Puritanical New England.