Books About Black History




Leather bound books about black history including black civil rights, famous black leaders, slavery, segregation and apartheid.

Easton Press books:

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1979

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow - 1989 (Library of Great Lives)

Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely - 1995 (Library of American History)

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (Library of American History)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave - Books That Changed The World -
1998

Native Son by Richard Wright - Great Books of The 20th Century - 1998

Long Walk to Freedom : The Nelson Mandela Autobiography - Signed Limited Edition - 2001

Time; Nelson Mandela A Hero's Journey

Life; Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. - 2008

No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu - 2009 (signed first edition)

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup - 2013

The African Americans; Many Rivers To Cross by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - 2014

The History Of Slavery And The Slave Trade - 2014

 Forgotten by Linda Hervieux - 2020

The Road to Freedom - 2021

 Black Firsts - 2021

 The History of The Civil Rights Movement - 2022

 African American Masterpieces - 2022


Franklin Library books:

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington - 1977 (100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

Dusk of Dawn by W. E. B. Du Bois - 1980 (100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

Uncle Tom's Cabin by 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature - 1984



Palladium Press books:

Library of American Freedoms titles:
My Bondage and my Freedom : Part I Life as a slave, Part II Life as a freeman by Frederick Douglass - 2007
Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Negro life in the Slave States of America by Harriet Beecher Stowe - 2008
The Anti-slavery Crusade; A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy - 2009