A celebration of the Mississippi Delta in words and pictures, this volume brings to life this storied region of the South. Actor Morgan Freeman provides a foreword in which he recounts his personal history as a child in the Delta and discusses why he was pulled back to his ancestral home, despite its challenges.

Christopher Okonkwo’s A Spirit of Dialogue adds to the slowly growing body of well-researched, thought-provoking explorations of Africa’s knowledge systems that go deeper than previously imagined in their ability to inform African descendants on both sides of the Atlantic.” -Anthonia Kalu, University of North Colorado

Born into slavery in 1853, Samuel Robert Cassius is a fascinating and instructive example of the first generation of freed slaves in the United States. This collection of writings by Cassius gives us the man—evangelist, educator, farmer, entrepreneur, postmaster, politician, and father of twenty-three—in a significant moment in the emergence of black culture and society between Reconstruction and the Great Depression.

Marshall Keeble stands as one of the Church of Christ’s most influential and celebrated African American evangelists. He helped establish over two hundred churches and baptized approximately forty thousand individuals during his nearly seventy years of ministry. A Godsend to His People brings to light over forty years of Keeble’s writings.

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book on any subject in America and only the second woman to do so. Phillis Wheatley’s Poetics of Liberation is a groundbreaking study of this important and most controversial writer.