- Harlem's Glory
- Lorraine E. Roses, Editor
- Ruth E. Randolph, Editor
- In poems, stories, memoirs, and essays, dozens of African-American women writers--some famous, many just discovered--give us a sense of a distinct inner voice and an engagement with their larger double culture. Harlem's Glory unfolds a rich tradition of writing by African-American women, hitherto mostly hidden, in the first half of the twentieth century.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback
- The Harvard Guide to African-American History
- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Editor-in-chief
- Leon F. Litwack, Volume editor
- Darlene Clark Hine, Volume editor
- Randall K. Burkett, Editorial board member
- This landmark guide covers research into every aspect of African-American life and work, offering a compendium of information and interpretation about almost 400 years of African-Americans's experiences as an ethnic group and as Americans. A companion CD-ROM packaged with the book makes more than 15,000 bibliography entries available for computer searching.
- Mixed 2001
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Harriet A. Jacobs
- Jean Fagan Yellin, Editor
- John S. Jacobs, Contributor
- This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery," published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents additional historical information about family life so well described already by his sister.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2000
- The Memoir of James Jackson, The Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months
- Susan Paul
- Lois Brown, Editor
- This remarkable document--the first African American biography and a work that predates Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by almost thirty years--is a lost treasure from the annals of African American history. Susan Paul's portrayal of James Jackson's Christian sensibility, his idealism, and his racial awareness emphasizes his humanity and exemplary American character over his racial identity, even as it embeds him in his African American community.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass
- Benjamin Quarles, Editor
- Frederick Douglass was born into bondage and sold repeatedly in the slave markets of the South. Because he secretly taught himself to read and write, we possess one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Written over 100 years ago, this classic goes far to explain why American still suffers from the great injustices of the past.
- Paperback 1991
- Rebecca's Revival
- Jon F. Sensbach
- This is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world. All but unknown today, Rebecca Protten left an enduring influence on African-American religion and society.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative
- Valerie Smith
- It is by telling the stories of their lives that black writers--from the authors of nineteenth-century slave narratives to contemporary novelists--affirm and legitimize their psychological autonomy. So Smith argues in this perceptive exploration of the relationship between autobiography and fiction in Afro-American writing. Smith sees the processes of plot construction and characterization as providing these narrators with a measure of authority unknown in their lives.
- Paperback 1991
- Shadrach Minkins
- Gary L. Collison
- In 1851 Shadrach Minkins, the first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, became the catalyst of one of the most dramatic episodes of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. In a feat of historical sleuthing, Gary Collison restores an extraordinary chapter to American history and also offers an engrossing picture of the life of an ordinary black man in nineteenth-century North America.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998