Download or read book Free Within Ourselves written by Rudine Sims Bishop and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of African American literature for children from its beginnings in the oral culture of the slaves of the South to the initial church works of the nineteenth century and its full emergence as a literature following the Harlem Renaissance.