num_pages: 301
description: Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Published in 1938, this was the first book from Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of the novels Native Son and Black Boy.
language: English
title: Uncle Tom's Children
titlecomplete: Uncle Tom's Children
genres: Short Stories, American, Historical Fiction, School, African American Literature, Literature, Race, African American, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 3124
publisher: HarperPerennial