I’ve been rolling this issue around in my mind since I first read this thread. When I thought , about it, I realized that virtually all the books by black authors I read are non-fiction, either history or memoir. Most recently, that would have been
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. It’s a searing account of women as slave owners, not just as the wives of slave owners, and full participants in both the economics and the evil of slavery. However, my sense is that’s not the type of book you’re looking for, which I imagine is imagined accounts of black lives by those for whom it is the lived experience.
While I think about this some more, I’d like to direct you to the first selection of the New Leaf Book Club here,
Passing, by Nella Larsen. While the book had its flaws, it’s a short novel and well worth reading. You might be interested in the
discussion.