A Slave No More David W. Blight ISBN:9780156034517 About the book: Slave narratives are extremely rare; very few are first-person accounts by slaves who freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group. Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama plantation, [...]
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Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner
Crooked River Burning Mark Winegardner ISBN:9780156014229 About the book: The critically acclaimed novel of a compelling love affair and the decline of a once prosperous city. The birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll, Cleveland was an economic powerhouse and America’s sixth-largest city in the late 1940s. By 1969, it had dropped to twelfth. In the summer [...]
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple Alice Walker ISBN:9780156028356 About the book: Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course [...]
Cotton by Christopher Wilson
Cotton Christopher Wilson ISBN:9780156030458 About the book: Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee’s first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end [...]
