The Epic of Funjan: The slave tree
In this ambitious and cutting-edge follow-up to Barbarian at the Gate, poet Xavier Cavazos explores the intersection of race, agriculture, history, and plant genus to focus more clearly on the life and times of Iowa State University alumnus ...
The desire to do this work came from being a child of parents born and raised in New Orleans during segregation, who ultimately left for California in the late 1950s.
Akee Tree is not only an honest and unbiased exploration into one family's history; it is a search for identity for a man and his people.
In the book Black Tree, White Tree: Why the Difference, Mr. Fridolin tries to inform other races of the world about black people's ordeals, and at the same time, he tries to call the black people of the world to be aware of where we were in ...
The book starts out with a visit to his grandfather's Ladell Bilberry old home site. The visit reveal that the old home site was now overtaken by the forest where it can barely be found any longer.
Tamaria had no idea that when she woke up in the morning the day would be one of the most unusual days she would ever have to endure.
Joinville was told that Souza had two thousand slaves in his barracoons, a thousand women in his harem, and that he had fathered eighty male children: "forts beaux mulatres," very well brought up, and dressed in white suits and panama ...
Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.
Taut free verse tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War—seen by some historians as the "beginning of the end of slavery in America.