To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880

The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and politicians. This first volume begins with the story of Africa and its origins, then presents an overview of the Atlantic slave trade, and the forced migration and enslavement of between ten and twenty million people. It covers the Haitian Revolution, which ended victoriously in 1804 with the birth of the first independent black nation in the New World, and slave rebellions and resistance in the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War. There are vivid accounts of the Civil War and Reconstruction years, the backlash of the notorious "Jim Crow" laws and mob lynchings, and the founding of key black educational institutions, such as Howard University in Washington, D.C. Here is a panoramic view of African-American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African Americans have experienced it.

• Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
• Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
• The Classic Slave Narratives
• 12 Years a Slave
• Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
• To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880 published by Oxford University Press, USA (2005)
• The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
• Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology, Second Edition
• The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback
• Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863–1865