First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editor...
Loreta Janeta Velazquez was the daughter of a Spanish official living in Cuba. As a young girl sh...
Published in 1817, The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the...
Mary Prince's narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the We...
Published in 1892, A Voice from the South is the only book published by one of the most prominent...
The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, NC, written by George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) and compose...
A Sketch of the Life of Okah Tubbee, published in 1852, begins with testimonials regarding Okah T...
Carter Woodson (1875-1950) was a prominent black leader and intellectual of the first half of the...
Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His father, Richard Yeager, was a whi...
Henry Bibb (1815-1854) was born to an enslaved woman named Mildred Jackson in Shelby County, Kent...
The extended title of The Cherokee Physician serves as an apt summary of its contents. The book w...
In 1913 the State of North Carolina officially recognized Robeson County Indians as 'Cherokees,' ...