Uncle Toms Companions: Or, Facts Stranger than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Toms Cabin is a collection of short biographies of famous former slaves, such as Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents.

The Black Swallow: A True Life of ValorOne man's journey from the Jim Crow South to the blood-soaked trenches of Verdun—and into the history books as the first African American fighter pilot.Born into the red clay of Georgia and haunted by the shadow of a lynch mob, Eugene Bullard didn't just escape the American South; he redefined the limits of human courage. Chasing a dream of a land where "all blood runs red," Bullard's odyssey took him ...

In this vivid and iconoclastic memoir, John Passmore takes us on an unsentimental journey from his childhood in Manly, then half-village, half-resort-'seven miles from Sydney, a thousand miles from care'-to the hot-house environment of the University of Sydney, and on to the realities of his imagined Europe. These physical voyages were rites of passage. The first marked the end of the fierce parochialism of childhood, inducting him into university life at a time of intellectual and politic...