In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for the

Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica

This work examines slave emancipation and opposition to it as a far-reaching, national event with profound social, political, and cultural consequences. The aut

When Carrie Allen McCray was a child, she was afraid to ask about the framed photograph of a white man on her mother's dresser. Years later she learned that he

This sequel to 1998's award-winning Lest We Forget chronicles the jubilation and despair of newly freed slaves turned loose, as Frederick Douglass put it, "to t