📚 African Continental Ancestry Group

Books with african continental ancestry group on their catalogue record, first published between 1826 and 1990, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject african continental ancestry group in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 341 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Autobiografía Malcolm X	Alex Haley	1965	70
	Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands	Mary Seacole	1857	62
	The Suppression Of The Slave Trade To The United States Of America 1638-1870	W. E. B. Du Bois	1896	55
	Peau Noire, Masques Blancs	Frantz Fanon	1952	52
	Half a man	Mary White Ovington	1911	28
	Blues people	Amiri Baraka	1963	28
	Black Power	Charles V. Hamilton	1967	27
	An American dilemma	Gunnar Myrdal	1944	24
	Black metropolis	St. Clair Drake	1945	23
	The myth of the Negro past	Melville J. Herskovitz	1941	21
	The negro family in the United States	E. Franklin Frazier	1939	19
	Poems	Langston Hughes	1959	18
	Black's Law Dictionary	Bryan A. Garner	1990	18
	Black rage	William H. Grier	1968	17
	Stride toward freedom	Martin Luther King Jr.	1958	16
	The Black family	Robert Staples	1971	15
	Man and Africa	G. E. W. Wolstenholme	1965	14
	Negroes and Negro "slavery:"	John H. Van Evrie	1853	10
	The American Negro	Melville J. Herskovitz	1928	10
	Christianity, Islam and the African race	Edward Wilmot Blyden	1887	9
	The health and physique of the Negro American	W. E. B. Du Bois	1906	9
	As serious as your life	Valerie Wilmer	1977	9
	The Negro in America	Elizabeth W. Miller	1963	7
	The Negro almanac	Harry A. Ploski	1967	7
	Thoughts on African colonization	William Lloyd Garrison	1832	6
	Twenty-five years in British Guiana	Henry Kirke	1898	6
	A practical view of the present state of slavery in the West Indies	Alexander Barclay	1826	5
	A bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America	Monroe Nathan Work	1928	5
	The Negro in America	Arnold Marshall Rose	1948	5
	Outcasts from evolution	John S. Haller	1971	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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