Deep Roots: The Complete Series — Vols. 1–7 (Interactive Editions)

All of Deep Roots — The Black Texas & Louisiana They Don't Teach — in one set. Seven Interactive Editions: full text, recorded narration by Marcus, chronological timelines, and educator quizzes throughout. 42 chapters. 94,693 words. About eight hours of narration.

Vol. 1 — Free at Last in Texas: Juneteenth, the delay, the $800 deed, the freedom colonies.

Vol. 2 — Towns They Built: the freedmen's towns of Texas, from Independence Heights to Kendleton.

Vol. 3 — Black Houston: Yates, Sweatt, TSU, Adair, Jordan, and the 1960 sit-ins.

Vol. 4 — Revolt: resistance in slave Louisiana — Pointe Coupee, the 1811 German Coast Uprising with its numbers held to the eyewitness range, Deslondes, Congo Square, Northup.

Vol. 5 — New Orleans: Plessy's planned arrest, the Creoles of color by the census's own counts, the Mask, Zulu, McDonogh's paradox.

Vol. 6 — The Bottoms and the Delta: Shreveport's Bottoms, Lead Belly with the legend labeled legend, Sarah Breedlove of Delta — Madam C. J. Walker.

Vol. 7 — Two States, One Story: the capstone — the corridor end to end, Frenchtown and zydeco, and the author's own family traced from documented records only.

Every chapter closes with its sources and a method note. Contested numbers are labeled, ranges are printed as ranges, open questions are printed open, and nobody is quoted who cannot be documented. That is the whole method — and it's in every volume.

The companion series to Left Out of the History Books, and the most personal work under The Digital Black Voice. Two states. One story. All receipts.