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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Dreams of Africa in Alabama Dreams of Africa in Alabama Sylviane A. Diouf Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, recounting their capture and passage i… OL15306056W
La rosa negra/ The Black Rose La rosa negra/ The Black Rose Tananarive Due Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indignity to become America's first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful beauty c… OL2632185W
The early Slavs The early Slavs P. M. Barford xvi, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. OL5998291W
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Robert J. Allison,Olaudah Equiano,Rebecka Rutledge Fisher The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and late… OL743333W