Louisiana Interest

Life on the Whitney Plantation: 100 Years After Slavery paperback - 2024 by Vernita Hills & Dr. Tracie Ferrell

Bouki Fait Gombo Paperback – August 27, 2014
by Ibrahima Seck

A booklet containing information about the museum, photographs of Woodrow Nash's Children of Whitney statues, and corresponding quotes from people who were enslaved in southeast Louisiana.

The Jailhouse Lawyer Hardcover – July 8, 2025
by Calvin Duncan (Author), Sophie Cull (Author)

Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations (Real Voices, Real History) Paperback – June 3, 2014
by Lynette Ater Tanner

A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club) Paperback – Enhanced, September 1, 1994
by Ernest J. Gaines (Author)

Black Creole Chronicles Paperback – May 23, 2023
by Mona Lisa Saloy (Author)

The Tradition Paperback - April 2, 2019
By Jericho Brown
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Le Ker Creole: Creole Compositions and Stories from Louisiana Hardcover – July 15, 2020
by Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes (Author), Rachel Breunlin (Author), Leroy Joseph Etienne (Author), Francis X. Pavy (Illustrator)

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States Paperback – October 1, 2002
by Zora Neale Hurston

How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America Hardcover – September 30, 2025
by Sonja Cherry-Paul (Adapter), Clint Smith (Author)

Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862--1880 Paperback – May 1, 2001
by John C. Rodrigue (Author)