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Index
Cover
About the website
Title page
Copyright page
Editorial Advisory Board
Preface
Introduction
Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents (by Genre)
Part One: The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, and Slavery: c.1746–1830
Introduction
Lucy Terry (c.1730–1821)
Bars Fight
Briton Hammon (dates unknown)
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man
Phillis Wheatley (c.1753–1784)
To Maecenas
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
On Being Brought from Africa to America
On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770
On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
On Recollection
On Imagination
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c.
To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
A Farewell to America to Mrs. S.W.
Jupiter Hammon (1711–c.1806)
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, Who Came from Africa at Eight Years of Age, and Soon Became Acquainted with the Gospel of Jesus Christ
John Marrant (1755–1791)
A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black
Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797)
Extracts from Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 10
Chapter 12
David Walker (c.1785–1830)
Extracts from Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America
Article 1
Article 2
Part Two: The Literatures of Slavery and Freedom: c.1830–1865
Introduction
Omar ibn Said (1770–1864)
Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself.
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852
William Wells Brown (1814–1884)
Narrative of William Wells Brown, an American Slave. Written by Himself.
The Escape; or, a Leap for Freedom:A Drama in Five Acts
Martin Robison Delany (1812–1885)
Extracts from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 17
Chapter 23
Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1825–1900)
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself.
Part Three: The Literatures of Reconstruction, Racial Uplift, and the New Negro: c.1865–1920
Introduction
Frank J. Webb (1828–1894)
Two Wolves and a Lamb
Marvin Hayle
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930)
Peculiar Sam, or the Underground Railroad: A Musical Drama in Four Acts
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932)
What Is a White Man?
The Marrow of Tradition
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)
Aunt Chloe
The Deliverance
Aunt Chloe’s Politics
Learning to Read
Church Building
The Reunion
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964)
Extract from A Voice from the South
Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
The Poet and His Song
Accountability
Frederick Douglass
A Prayer
Passion and Love
An Ante-Bellum Sermon
Ode to Ethiopia
Whittier1
A Banjo Song
To Louise
Alice
After the Quarrel
Beyond the Years
The Spellin’-Bee
A Negro Love Song
The Colored Soldiers
Nature and Art
When de Co’n Pone’s Hot
The Deserted Plantation
We Wear the Mask
Phyllis
When Malindy Sings
Extract from The Heart of Happy Hollow
The Lynching of Jube Benson
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
Extract from Up from Slavery
Chapter 14
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963)
The Souls of Black Folk
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Glossary
Timeline: 1746 to 1920
Name Index
Subject Index
Wiley Blackwell Anthologies
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