The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism

"First published in 1992, it traced the story of black North Carolinians from the colonial period into the 1990s. A revised edition issued in 2002 that included

From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not t