This is a list of books published by Amistad Press, an imprint of HarperCollins acquired in late October 1999.[1][2] It is the oldest imprint devoted to the African-American market,[3] and takes its name from a slave ship on which a revolt occurred in 1839. Charles F. Harris (1934–2015)[2][4] started in the 1970s the quarterly anthology of black writing AmistadatRandom House, where he worked as a senior editor from 1967, and it "went through a number of collaborative publishing ventures with large publishers"[3] before being launched in 1986 as the independent imprint Amistad Press Inc.[2] Harris joined HarperCollins as vice president of the imprint at the time of the 1999 merger,[5] and remained as editorial director until 2003.[4] The current editorial director is Tracy Sherrod, who joined the Amistad imprint in 2013.[6][7]
Publishing about 10 titles a year,[7] Amistad does not aim for commercial fiction success; it leans toward narrative nonfiction.[8]
As of December 2020[update], approximately 154 Amistad Press books are listed by the publisher as in print.[9]