Results for Historical Fiction Featuring Black Protagonists
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A Black, southern house servant with internalized racism, joins her mistress on a visit to another region, where she observes Black people acting with something she abhors: autonomy.
An African American man from the twentieth century goes back in time to prevent his town from being destroyed by a mob of violent whites.
The racism a Black, working-class couple faces at work during the Harlem Renaissance spills over into their relationship in violent ways.
A Black writer in the 1930s sets out for Durham working on a project about the folklore of ex-slaves. During his work, he comes across the Night Doctors who will take everything he has for him to go free.
As he reflects on a murder perpetrated by his father, a college professor considers the history of his family and how race and violence intersect.
A young white girl takes on responsibility for repaying Black people in America back for their suffering under slavery after hearing a gospel choir sing.
In 2018, a pedestrian on the New York City’s Lower East Side witnesses a young Black couple in love, prompting a consideration about the storytelling, hope, and Nelson Mandela.
An older white man in the South agrees to hide a Black fugitive on the same night his old lover visits with her husband and son. When a mob arrives at his house in pursuit of the fugitive, the older man inadvertently causes the death of his newfound kin.
Sometime after the abolishment of slavery, a white Louisianan man is tasked to find a black man accused of murder.
In a lawless America, a tribe of vagabond minority teenagers stumble upon a town controlled by a White supremacist militia that eats non-White people and must rescue the captives before it's too late.