70+ Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays
ebook ∣ Passing, The Goophered Grapevine , The Weary Blues, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and others
By Frederick Douglass
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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was a great period of flowering in literature and the arts, influenced both by writers who came North in the Great Migration and those who were immigrants from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. The collection includes works by such prominent masters of American literature as Frederick Douglass, Nella Larsen, Charles W. Chesnutt , Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Booker T. Washington , W. E. B. Du Bois and many others.
Contents: Novels and short stories
Frederick Douglass
THE HEROIC SLAVE Nella Larsen
QUICKSAND
PASSING
THE WRONG MAN
FREEDOM
SANCTUARY Alice Dunbar-Nelson A CARNIVAL JANGLE
VIOLETS
THE WOMAN
TEN MINUTES' MUSING
TITEE Charles W. Chesnutt THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE PO' SANDY
SIS' BECKY'S PICKANINNY
THE DOLL
THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH Paul Laurence Dunbar
THE SCAPEGOAT Jean Toomer
BECKY Poetry Phillis Wheatley
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM, EARL OF DARTMOUTH
ON VIRTUE
AN HYMN TO THE MORNING
AN HYMN TO THE EVENING Frances E. W. Harper
BURY ME IN A FREE LAND
SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE
MY MOTHER'S KISS
A GRAIN OF SAND
OUR HERO
THE SPARROW'S FALL James Weldon Johnson
SENCE YOU WENT AWAY Paul Laurence Dunbar
THE LESSON
SYMPATHY
WE WEAR THE MASK Claude McKay
AFTER THE WINTER
IF WE MUST DIE
THE TROPICS IN NEW YORK Countee Cullen
FOR PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
INCIDENT LANGSTON HUGHES
THE WEARY BLUES
JAZZONIA
NEGRO DANCERS
THE CAT AND THE SAXOPHONE (2 A. M.)
YOUNG SINGER
CABARET
TO MIDNIGHT NAN AT LEROY'S
TO A LITTLE LOVER-LASS, DEAD
HARLEM NIGHT CLUB
NUDE YOUNG DANCER
YOUNG PROSTITUTE
TO A BLACK DANCER IN "THE LITTLE SAVOY"
SONG FOR A BANJO DANCE
BLUES FANTASY
LENOX AVENUE: MIDNIGHT Non-fiction Frederick Douglass NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS Harriet Jacobs
INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL Booker T. Washington
UP FROM SLAVERY William Still
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Henry Box Brown
James Hambleton Christian
Theophilus Collins
Seth Concklin
William and Ellen Craft Abram Galloway and Richard Eden
Charles Gilbert
Samuel Green
Jamie Griffin
Harry Grimes
James Hamlet and Others
John Henry Hill
Ann Maria Jackson and Her Seven Children
Jane Johnson
Matilda Mahoney
Mary Frances Melvin
Aunt Hannah Moore
Alfred S. Thornton Essays W. E. B. Du Bois
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK Charles W. Chesnutt
THE DISFRANCHISEMENT OF THE NEGRO Paul Laurence Dunbar
REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN NEGROES