Govenar, Alan B.

Contains personal accounts of the experiences of a wide range of African-Americans, featuring over seventy selections of slave narratives and oral histories, with a focus on the period from 1703 to 1948.

Through interviews and photographs, presents the art and life stories of five American masters of the traditional arts.

A collection of twenty-seven first-person accounts in which African-Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and jobs examine both the literal and metaphoric meaning of "frontier".