My Bondage and My Freedom
10 best books like My Bondage and My Freedom (Frederick Douglass): The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself, The Mis-Education of the Negro, They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, Nigger, Common Sense and Other Writings, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, The Classic Slave Narratives
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688
Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister....
| Author | Booker T. Washington |
| ISBN | 0451527542 |
Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period.
"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which...
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
| Author | Olaudah Equiano |
| ISBN | 0312442033 |
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces...
The Mis-Education of the Negro
| Author | Carter G. Woodson |
| ISBN | 1564110419 |
The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare...
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
| Author | Ivan Van Sertima |
| ISBN | 0812968174 |
They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans; the transportation of plants, animals,...
| Author | Dick Gregory |
| ISBN | 0671735608 |
I read this book years ago. It was given to me by a young black man who was working to change the attitudes of white people. However, I was a young white woman and he knocked on my apartment door and asked to come in and talk about Civil Rights. It was 1964. I was a senior in high school. I asked him to come in. He...
| Author | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 1593082096 |
Introduction and Notes by Joyce Appleby
Though he didn't emigrate from England to the colonies until 1774, just a few months before the Revolutionary War began, Thomas Paine had an enormous impact on that war & the new nation that emerged from it. Common Sense, the instantly popular pamphlet...
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, preached, and debated at camp meetings across the country, led by her devotion to the antislavery movement and her ardent pursuit of women's rights. Born into slavery in 1797, Truth fled from bondage some...
The Classic Slave Narratives
| Author | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| ISBN | 0451528247 |
The Life of Olaudah Equiano (finished January 2011)
This story at first was indeed a challenge for me. The language and words the author uses made me re-read pages a few times to understand what he was talking about. Of all the stories in this novel, this one was the most difficult as well as long....
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0613630866 |
This is a biography that actually merits the “magisterial” among its blurbs, the kind of book that shows biography second only to the novel for difficulty of organization and effect. As epigraph to the first of the five volumes he would devote to the life of Henry James, Leon Edel quoted a line from...
| Author | William L. Andrews |
| ISBN | 1883011760 |
No literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the cruelty and degradation of slavery while testifying to the African-American struggle for freedom...
