A Voice from the South by Anna J. Cooper is a groundbreaking collection of essays and reflections advocating for the education, empowerment, and social advancement of African American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cooper addresses issues...
Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted by Frances E. W. Harper is a landmark novel of African American literature that explores themes of identity, freedom, education, and racial uplift in the aftermath of the Civil War. The story follows Iola Leroy, a...
Fagunwa's novels draw heavily on folktale traditions and idioms, including many supernatural elements. His heroes are usually Yoruba hunters, who interact with kings, sages, and even gods in their quests. Thematically, his novels also explore the divide between the Christian...
A triumph of the mythic imagination, Forest of a Thousand Daemons unfolds in a landscape where, true to Yoruba cosmology, human, natural and supernatural beings are compellingly and wonderfully alive at once: a world of warriors, sages and kings; magical trees and...
Fagunwa's novels draw heavily on folktale traditions and idioms, including many supernatural elements. His heroes are usually Yoruba hunters, who interact with kings, sages, and even gods in their quests. Thematically, his novels also explore the divide between the Christian...
Slavery by William E. Channing is a powerful and eloquent moral critique of slavery in 19th-century America. Written by one of the most prominent Unitarian ministers and social reformers of his time, this work denounces the institution of slavery as incompatible...
Originally published in The Journal of Negro History, this fascinating and important work records the recollections of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last surviving captives of the Clotilde, the final ship to dock in the United States with a cargo...