With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America b

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

"With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America

From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and

The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly 'free'