Phillips, Caryl

The life stories of three black men of different times and backgrounds reveals the place and role of the foreigner in English society.

A depressed white woman with a troubled past and an illegal African immigrant whose life has been destroyed by war slowly become a part of each other's lives in a small, racist northern England town.

Describes the lives of three black children condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753.

Describes the lives of three black children condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753.

Presents a biographical fiction based upon the life of Bert Williams, who, after years of struggling on the stage, donned blackface makeup and became the most famous African-American entertainer of the early 1900s, and describes the effects of this "impersonation" to his own life and to the lives of his family.