Fictionalized account of slave life in Kentucky.

Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba

Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its

Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and he