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SteampunX - Episode Three: The Railroad Underground    by Benjamin Jacobson
Price: Free! 9100 words. Language: English. Published on December 27, 2011. Fiction » African American fiction » Historical.

On the run from a dark legacy, the man called Thunder and a group of fugitive slaves escape through the backwoods of New France. Freedom waits in the city-state of Liberia, if they can put aside their differences and evade capture. Meanwhile the organization known as the Factory has transformed slaves into bio-mechanical zombies and set them like dogs on the path of the fleeing mob.
Ain't No Sunshine    by Leslie DuBois
Price: $2.99 USD. 41520 words. Language: English. Published on August 20, 2010. Fiction » African American fiction » Historical.

0.5 star(4.55 from 11 reviews)
Whites Only. Those words adorned every building in Livingston, Virginia during the summer of 1963 confusing and angering five-year-old Stephen Phillips. Those words told him that what he felt for his colored neighbor Ruthie was wrong. As a teenager, Ruthie becomes the only ray of sunshine in his abusive life and he is not willing to let her go without a fight, a fight that could lead to murder.
How He Comes Out of the Sun (A Digital Short Story)    by Carlyle Clark
Price: Free! 6870 words. Language: English. Published on November 22, 2012. Fiction » Adventure » War & military.

(5.00 from 1 review)
WWII: A B-17 bomber secretly crewed by American Negros called the “Nobodies” is limping back from an unofficial mission thinking they are home free when a seemingly unavoidable tragedy begins unfolding right inside their plane . . . *This is a five print page short story with a ten print page sample of the Carlyle Clark's Mystery Thriller: The Black Song Inside
Living Half Free    by Haley Whitehall
Price: $2.99 USD. 101300 words. Language: English. Published on February 10, 2012. Fiction » Historical » USA.

0.5 star(4.43 from 7 reviews)
When Zachariah, a naïve mulatto slave, is sold to a Kentucky slave trader, and separated from his ma and sister, he realizes the true meaning of not having rights. Seeking escape, he falls in love with a Cherokee woman, under whose direction he learns to pass as white. But, he must find his voice, and the courage to stand up for his beliefs or else lose everyone he loves forever.
A True Mulatto Face    by Kenya Youngblood
Price: Free! 3350 words. Language: English. Published on February 26, 2013. Fiction » African American fiction » Historical.

(1.00 from 1 review)
Trouble brews when it's discovered the King of England's betrothed is of black African descent.
Portrait of the Past    by Kate Halleron
Price: $2.99 USD. 66760 words. Language: English. Published by Girlebooks  on June 18, 2011. Fiction » African American fiction » Historical.

The year is 1880. Marguerite is an artist and former slave who is hired to paint a wedding portrait for a wealthy family. She soon finds that the family has close ties to her past from which she has constantly fled. Instead of fleeing again, she stays to paint a portrait of her former family, and in so doing she begins to understand the difficult choices her loved ones were driven to make.
A Brownstone In Brooklyn    by Julius Thompson
Price: $2.99 USD. 54660 words. Language: English. Published on May 7, 2011. Fiction » African American fiction » Historical.

A Brownstone In Brooklyn chronicles the life-altering events that shape the future of Andy Michael Pilgrim, a young man growing up in the turbulent sixties.
The Legacy of Roosevelt Clay    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 2370 words. Language: English. Published on July 10, 2010. Fiction » African American fiction » Historical.

This is a tale of how a black man in the deep south of the 1950's and 60's became the biggest landowner in all of the region. Or so they say...
A Time Of Essence    by DL Kilcrease
Price: Free! 69770 words. Language: English. Published on October 11, 2012. Fiction » Historical » USA.

Is the Civil War really over? Or does it reach us still, after so many years? Thomas MacLachlan didn't come to Glendylan to unmask the southern town's long-buried secret. But he soon found out that the murder of his colleague and the town's history were inextricably linked in ways that could never have been foreseen.
The Truth about It All    by The M.A.D. Poet (aka Melissa A. Dean)
Price: $0.99 USD. 880 words. Language: English. Published on October 30, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Educational.

Ever wanted to know the (whole) truth about it all?