During the night of April 10, 1734, Montréal burned. Marie-Joseph Angélique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed forty-si
Presents a fictionalized account of Henry Bibb's childhood in slavery, telling how he taught himself to read and write despite being forbidden to do so and rose to become a prominent abolitionist.
Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, identi
