'Wright's unrelentingly bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South or of Chicago
but that of the world the human heart' James Baldwin Natural disasters cold-blooded murders
political agitation - all haunt these dark dramatic novellas set in an American Deep South
still corrupted by its slave-owning past. But at the heart of each are the stories of the men
women and children whose resistance against oppression will come to define their lives.
Originally published in 1938 Uncle Tom's Children was Richard Wright's first published work.
It would establish his reputation as both a powerful storyteller and a fierce chronicler of
racism violence and oppression in America at the time.
