"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...

"Because something is happening, in the distance, approaching from above and below. Weird holes are appearing. I'm often drawn by a void. And that might be the reason I have started to speak. So says the Scatterwind, the narrator in Robert Perisic's latest novel, A Cat at the Edge of the World. Defying the realms of time and space, the Scatterwind is a knowing presence throughout this story, which spans from the time of ancient Sparta to our contemporary...

A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.

Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

Presents the remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled white man and William posing as "his" slave. In December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled...

Runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada, following the directions in a song taught to them by one of the Railroad's conductors, an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe. Based on real events. Includes the song's music and lyrics.

In a fantasy that borrows themes from the Bible and classical literature, nomadic thief Uruk and the slave Ander journey through the jungles of sub-Saharan Africa in search of the fabled city of Ur, where Uruk hopes to discover riches.

Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War.

Examines some of the historic homes and places that sheltered escaped slaves as they made their way along the Underground Railroad to freedom.

A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.