African-American Books

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle (1906) is a novel by Upton Sinclair which exposed the horrible conditions of the U.S. meatpacking industry and a corrupt economic system. Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, is treated l..

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Army Life in a Black Regiment is biographical work by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered in..

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave

Frederick Douglass

Excerpts from the author of the book Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave written by himself.In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and i..

The American Prejudice Against Color

William G. Allen

Excerpts from the author William G. Allen's introduction of the book The American Prejudice Against Color.Many persons having suggested that it would greatly subserve the Anti-slavery Cause in th..

Aunt Phillis's Cabin

Mary H. Eastman

Aunt Phillis's Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. It was published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Ph..

Black Rebellion

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Black Rebellion by Thomas Wentworth Higginson is a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who success..

Clotel, or The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Brown, who ..

Education of the Negro

Charles Dudley Warner

Excerpts from the book Education of the Negro written by Charles Dudley Warner.At the close of the war for the Union about five millions of negroes were added to the citizenship of the Unite..