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A sweeping historical novel that traces the Biafran War through the intertwined lives of Nigerian characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard.

In "Wide Sargasso Sea" Jean Rhys explores the life of a Caribbean woman, her troubled marriage, and the lingering effects of colonialism, race, and gender dynamics.

Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old black youth in poverty on Chicago's South Side, becomes embroiled in a brutal murder and must face the consequences of his violent actions in Richard Wright's novel 'Native Son' (1940).

James Weldon Johnson’s autobiographical novel traces the life of a mixed‑race narrator who, able to pass as white, struggles with identity and injustice in early 20th‑century America.

Set in 1937 on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, the novel follows Amabelle, an orphaned maid, and Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, as they navigate love and persecution amid looming terror.

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A middle‑aged Afro‑American woman travels to Carriacou and reconnects with her heritage, discovering a past and a culture she comes to cherish.

At seventeen, Edith Jackson vows to secure a job and raise her three younger sisters, but when social services separates them, she faces a life‑changing decision.

An intergenerational saga tracing an African‑Canadian‑American family's journey from the 19th‑century slave trade in Virginia through the Underground Railroad to modern Oakville, Ontario, as its youngest son seeks identity by uncovering his ancestors’ stories.

In Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, enabling many of these authors to be heard clearly for the first time in two centuries. Their writings reflect the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic-America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa - between 1760 and 1798. Letters, poems, captivity narratives, petitions, criminal autobiographies, economic treatises, travel accounts, and antislavery arguments were produced during a time of various and changing political and religious loyalties. Although the theme of liberation from physical or spiritual captivity runs throughout the collection, freedom also clearly led to hardship and disappointment for a number of these authors. In his introduction, Carretta reconstructs the historical and cultural context of the works, emphasizing the constraints of the eighteenth-century genres under which these authors wrote. The texts and annotations are based on extensive research in both published and manuscript holdings of archives in the United States and the United Kingdom. Appropriate for undergraduates as well as for scholars, Unchained Voices gives a clear sense of the major literary and cultural issues at the heart of writings in English by people of African descent.