African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-ce

The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism

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“If you don’t know my name, you don’t know your own.”—James Baldwin An anthology of African-American literature featuring contributions from some of t

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