William Pickens

From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…

In the first of two autobiographies, Pickens describes his early life struggling to help his family free themselves from a system of tenant …

Although slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865, its cancerous tendrils …