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Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature

Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the

There are a plethora of books being released this summer which will be of special interest to readers of this

Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in

“A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence,”

In late 1892, a railroad operator approached activist-journalist Ida B. Wells to inquire why the Black community of Memphis, Tennessee, had been