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Author

Title

Daniel Alef

Pale Truth

Howard Bahr

The Black Flower: a Novel of the Civil War

Calvin Baker

Naming the New World

Russell Banks

Cloudsplitter

Steven Barnes

Lion's Blood

George Baxt

A Queer Kind of Umbrella

David Beasley

Sarah's Journey

Madison Smartt Bell

Master of the Crossroads

Joan Brady

Theory of War

Dionne Brand

At the Full and Change of the Moon

Connie Briscoe

A Long Way From Home

Wesley Brown

Darktown Strutters: a Novel

Sally Carrighar

The Glass Dove

Barbara Chase-Riboud

The Presiden'ts Daughter
Echo of Lions

Jennifer Chiaverini

The Runaway Quilt

Austin Clarke

The Polished Hoe

Michelle Cliff

Free Enterprise

Patrick Chamoiseau

Texaco

Hannah Crafts

The Bondwoman's Narrative

Teresa Crane

Freedom's Banner

Sarah Donati

Lake in the Clouds

Candas Jane Dorsey

Black Wine

David Anthony Durham

Walk Through Darkness

Howard Fast

Spartacus

Robert Fowler

The Spoils of Eden

Ernest J. Gaines

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Christina Garcia

Monkey Hunting

Phyllis Gotlieb

Flesh and Gold

Roberta Grimes

My Thomas: a Novel of Martha Jeffrey's Life

J. P. Hailey

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

Alex Haley

A Different Kind of Christmas

Barbara Hambly

Sold Down the River

Marcy Heidish

A Woman Called Moses: a Novel Based on the Life of Harriet Tubman

Mildred Barger Herschler

The Walk Into Morning

Charles Richard Johnson

Middle Passage
Soulcatcher and Other Stories

Douglas C. Jones

The Barefoot Brigade

Edward Jones

The Known World

M. M. Kaye

Trade Wind

Catherine Lim

The Bondmaid

Mary E. Lyons

Letters from a Slave Girl

Kate McCafferty

Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl

Donald McCaig

Jacob's Ladder: the Story of Virginia During the War

Valerie Martin

Property

Carol Matas

The War Within

Louise Meriweather

Fragments of the Ark

Grace Monfredo

Children of Cain

Toni Morrison

Beloved

F. M. Parker

The Shanghaiers

Owen Parry

Call Each River Jordan

Judith Pella

Texas Angel

Caryl Phillips

Crossing the River
Cambridge

Eugenia Price

New Moon Rising

Gary Paulsen

Sarny, A Life Remembered

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Voodoo Dreams: a Novel of Marie Laveau

Ann Rinaldi

Taking Liberty: the Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave

Francine Rivers

A Voice in the Wind

Rosemary Rogers

An Honorable Man

Virginia Frances Schwartz

Send One Angel Down

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

William Styron

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Lalita Tademy

Cane River

Thomas Tryon

In the Fire of Spring

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Barry Unsworth

Sacred Hunger

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Robert Penn Warren

Band of Angels

Jessamyn West

Except for Me and Thee

Frank Yerby

The Dahomean

Richard Zimler

Hunting Midnight


 

 

 

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