Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly 'free'

Spanning three centuries, this book demonstrates a variety of archival practices to tell more expansive stories about Black women. It examines the life writing,

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the

During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers - enslaved and free - allied themselves with the cause of abolition and used their ar

This volume charts the ways in which African American literature fosters transitions between material cultures and contexts from 1830 to 1850, and showcases wor