African-American Books

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Nat Love

Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself; a True History of Slavery Days, Life on the Great Cattle Ranges and on the Plains of the "Wild and W..

The Negro

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Negro is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915. It is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Saharan cultures, including Great Zimbabwe, Ghana and Songha..

The Negro Problem

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Negro Problem is a collection of seven essays by prominent Black American writers, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Booker T. Washington, and published in 1903. It cove..

Frederick Douglass

Charles W. Chesnutt

A concise and well-written biography of the great abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, written just four years after his death. With a chronology and bibliography...

Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights

Kelly Miller

Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights is a non-fiction work by Kelly Miller. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base..

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an ex..

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

The Crafts

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom is a written account by Ellen Craft and William Craft first published in 1860. Their book reached wide audiences in Great Britain and the United States and it repr..

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk is a work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history. The book, publis..