Before Harlem : an anthology of African American literature from the long nineteenth century / edited by Ajuan Maria Mance.
"Despite important recovery and authentication efforts during the last twenty-five years, the vast majority of nineteenth-century African American writers and their work remain unknown to today's readers. Moreover, the most widely used anthologies of black writing have established a canon...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2016] |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- An oration on the abolition of the slave trade, delivered in the African Church, in the City of New York, January 1, 1808 / Peter Williams
- A thanksgiving sermon / Absalom Jones
- Letters from a man of colour, on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania. Letter I / James Forten
- To our patrons / Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm
- The tears of a slave / Amos Beman
- Theresa, a Haytien tale / S.
- Gratitude ; Lines: on the evening and the morning ; Slavery ; Forbidden to ride on the street cars / George Moses Horton
- Appeal to the coloured citizens of the world. Article I: our wretchedness in consequence of slavery / David Walker
- An address, delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston, February 27, 1833 / Maria W. Stewart
- Ella: a sketch ; Family worship / Sarah Mapps Douglass
- Advice to young ladies ; Lines upon being examined in school studies for the preparation of a teacher ; The infant class, written in school / Ann Plato
- What are the colored people doing for themselves? ; To my old master ; The heroic slave / Frederick Douglass
- Letter from William W. Brown, Adelphi Hotel, York, March 26, 1851 ; Letter from William Wells Brown, Oxford, Sept. 10th, 1851 ; Clotel, or, The president's daughter. Chapter I: the negro sale ; Visit of a fugitive slave to the grave of Wilberforce ; My Southern home, or, The South and its people. Chapter IX / William Wells Brown
- "Heads of the colored people," done with a whitewash brush ; The black news-vendor ; The washerwoman ; The sexton ; The schoolmaster / James McCune Smtih
- From our Brooklyn correspondent, May 13, 1852 ; Afric-American picture gallery, number I / William J. Wilson
- America ; Prayer of the oppressed ; A poem / James Monroe Whitfield
- To Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe ; On the death of my sister Cecilia, the last of five members of the family, who died successively ; An epitaph / Joseph C. Holly
- Eliza Harris ; The slave auction ; Bury me in a free land ; Enlightened motherhood: an address ... before the Brooklyn Literary Society, November 15, 1892 / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the "peculiar institution." The blood of the slave ; Slaves on the auction block / Peter Randolph
- From The repeal of the Missouri Compromise considered ; Loguen's position / Elymas Payson Rogers
- The Rev. J.W. Loguen, as a slave and as a freeman. Chapter I-II ; Letter to Rev. J.W. Loguen, from his old mistress, and Mr. Loguen's reply / J.W. Loguen
- Blake, or, The huts of America. Chapter VI: Henry's return ; Chapter VII: Master and slave ; Chapter VIII: The sale ; Chapter IX: The runaway / Martin R. Delany
- Our nig: sketches from the life of a free black. Chapter I: Mag Smith, my mother ; Chapter II: My father's death ; Chapter III: A new home for me / Harriet E. Wilson
- Incidents in the life of a slave girl. Chapter I: Childhood ; Chapter II: The new master and mistress ; Chapter V: The trials of girlhood ; Chapter VI: The jealous mistress / Harriet Jacobs
- Liberia ; To Madame Selika / John Willis Menard
- The New York riot / Solomon G. Brown
- Poetry and poets. Part I, II, IV ; The critic / J. Anderson Raymond
- Neglected opportunities ; On horse back: saddle dash, no. I / Edmonia Goodelle Highgate
- Thanksgiving Day sermon: the social principle among a people and its bearing on their progress and development / Alexander Crumwell
- Lincoln: written for the occasion of the unveiling of the freedmen's monument in memory of Abraham Lincoln, April 14, 1876 ; To my father ; Toussaint L'Ouverture ; In memoriam: Paul Laurence Dunbar / Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Black and white: land, labor, and politics in the South. Chapter XII: civilization degrades the masses ; The conclave: to the ladies of Tuskegee School ; Love's divinest power ; Come away, love / Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The goophered grapevine ; Tobe's tribulations ; The free colored people of North Carolina / Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- A mother's love ; Wilberforce ; The black Samson ; An epitaph / Josephine D. Henderson Heard
- A voice from the South. Womanhood: a vital element in the regeneration and progress of a race / Anna Julia Cooper
- A hero in ebony: a Pullman porter's story ; Hanover, or, The persecution of the lowly: a story of the Wilmington massacre. Chapter V: Molly Pierrepont ; Henry Berry Lowery, the North Carolina outlaw: a tale of the Reconstruction period / David Bryant Fulton
- Southern horrors: lynch law in all its phases. Preface ; The offense ; The black and white of it / Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- The intellectual progress of colored women since the Emancipation Proclamation / Fannie Barrier Williams
- An autobiography: the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist. Chapter XXXI / Amanda Smith
- The newsboy ; Afro-American boy ; The warrior's lay ; Soul visions ; The superannuate / Katherine Davis Tillman
- The white problem / Richard Theodore Greener
- The value of race literature: an address delivered at the First Congress of Colored Women of the United States / Victoria Earle Matthews
- De linin' ub de hymns ; Stickin' to de hoe / Daniel Webster Davis
- Unexpressed ; Frederick Douglass ; When Malindy sings ; A Negro love song ; Little brown baby ; Dawn ; Compensation / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Voices ; Heart-throbs ; The nation's evil / Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
- Imperium in imperio. Chapter I: a small beginning ; Chapter II: the school ; Chapter III: the parson's advice ; Chapter IV: the turning of a worm / Sutton E. Griggs
- The American Negro: what he was, what he is, and what he may become. Chapter VII: moral lapses / William Hannibal Thomas
- A Georgia episode / A Gude Deekun
- Hagar's daughter: a story of Southern caste prejudice. Chapter IV-V / Pauline Hopkins
- The snapping of the bow ; Me 'n' Dunbar ; Juny at the gate ; The black cat club: Negro humor & folk-lore. Chapter I: the club introduced / James D. Corrothers
- The path of life ; The battleground ; The problem / Benjamin Griffith Brawley
- The octoroon's revenge / Ruth D. Todd
- Love's wayfaring ; Golden moonrise ; In the athenaeum looking out on the granary burying ground on a rainy day in November / William Stanley Braithwaite
- What happened to Scott: an episode of election day / Augustus Hodges
- Bernice, the octoroon / Marie Louise Burgess-Ware
- Credo ; A litany of Atlanta ; The burden of black women ; My country, 'tis of thee / W.E.B. Du Bois
- The preacher's wife, dedicated to the wives of the itinerant preachers of the M.E. Church ; Apple sauce and chicken fried ; To a spring in the Cumberlands ; The bachelor girl / Effie Waller Smith
- What it means to be colored in the capital of the United States / Mary Church Terrell
- From As to the leopard's spots: an open letter to Thomas Dixon, Jr. / Kelly Miller
- An unheeded signal / Thomas Horatius Malone
- Freedom at McNealy's ; The husband's return ; A home greeting / Priscilla Jane Thompson
- Johnny's pet superstition ; Mrs. Johnson objects ; The Easter bonnet ; A lullaby / Clara Ann Thompson
- The new Negro / S. Laing Williams
- Grant and Lee ; Uncle Remus to Massa Joel ; The Confederate veteran and the old-time darky ; Negro love song / Joseph Seamon Cotter
- Old maid's soliloquy ; What's mo' temptin' to de palate / Maggie Pogue Johnson.