Tar and feathers: An entrancing post-war romance in which the Ku Klux Klan, its principles and activities figure prominently, based on fact

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel is a work of political and didactic fiction that foregrounds slavery as its…

The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills

John Trotwood Moore

The Bishop of Cottontown is a Southern‑set novel that weaves together the lives of cotton‑mill workers,…

A Black Adonis

Linn Boyd Porter

A Black Adonis is a turn‑of‑the‑century work of African‑American fiction that opens with a reflective, almost…

Lady Luck

Hugh Wiley

The novel opens in a bustling Memphis train station, where the narrator, a street‑wise figure who calls…

Cane

Jean Toomer

Cane is a modernist work that blends poetry, short story, and drama to portray the lives of African‑American…

The Conjure Woman

Charles W. Chesnutt