In addition to that novel about Annie and Mary Ellen Pleasant, one of this author's characters reminisces about her parents Boy and Kitty through flashbacks while on a truck with guerrillas before they are ambushed.  
One poem by this author states "How dare anyone object / Tell me I had better not exist" and declares that gold chains are found in "mines in South Africa / Where our brothers sweat their lives underground".  In one work of this author, wealthy Paul H. and his family are murdered by the poor yard worker Christopher, and another follows a character who owns a string of hotels in San Francisco used as sanctuaries for runaway slaves and plans to join John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.  In addition to that novel about Annie and Mary Ellen Pleasant, one of this author's characters reminisces about her parents Boy and Kitty through flashbacks while on a truck with guerrillas before they are ambushed.  FTP, name this author of Free Enterprise who wrote about Clare Savage in Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven.
One poem by this author states "How dare anyone object / Tell me I had better not exist" and declares that gold chains are found in "mines in South Africa / Where our brothers sweat their lives underground".  
Michelle Cliff