Early Black American Writers

From the earliest published work in 1761 through the Civil War years, this informative anthology provides a valuable overview of Black literature during the period. Varying in background and skill, from self-taught slave to college-trained professor, the writers of this collection were among the most important early shapers of Black American culture: Banneker, Douglass, Delany, many others.

Introduction

3

(18)

Jupiter Hammon

21

(10)

An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ

23

(3)

A Dialogue Intitled The Kind Master and the Dutiful Servant

26

(5)

Phillis Wheatley

31

(25)

To the University of Cambridge, in New England

36

(1)

On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield

37

(2)

To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Secretary of State for North America

39

(1)

An Hymn to the Morning

40

(1)

An Hymn to the Evening

41

(1)

On Imagination

42

(2)

Niobe in Distress for her Children Slain by Apollo

44

(7)

To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing his Works

51

(1)

His Excellency General Washington

52

(1)

Liberty and Peace

53

(3)

Gustavus Vassa

56

(19)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oloudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa (selection)

57

(18)

Benjamin Banneker

75

(12)

Letter to the Secretary of State

79

(4)

A Plan of Peace-Office for the United States

83

(4)

Richard Allen and Absalom Jones

87

(9)

A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia (selections)

89

(7)

Prince Hall

96

(4)

A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge at Menotomy, Mass

97

(3)

Peter Williams

100

(10)

A Discourse Delivered on the Death of Captain Paul Cuffe

101

(9)

George M. Horton

110

(13)

On Liberty and Slavery

114

(2)

The Slave's Complaint

116

(1)

On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom

117

(1)

On Spring

118

(2)

Love

120

(1)

On the Truth of the Saviour

120

(2)

George Moses Horton, Myself

122

(1)

David Walker

123

(24)

Appeal (selections)

125

(22)

Daniel A. Payne

147

(13)

The Mournful Lute, or The Preceptor's Farewell

151

(6)

Poem Composed for the Soiree of the Vigilant Committee of Philadelphia

157

(3)

Josiah Henson

160

(8)

Truth Stranger than Fiction (selection)

162

(6)

William Wells Brown

168

(7)

Visit of a Fugitive Slave to the Grave of Wilberforce

170

(5)

Frederick Douglass

175

(41)

My Bondage and my Freedom (selections)

179

(23)

American Slavery (selection)

202

(6)

What the Black Man Wants

208

(8)

Martin R. Delany

216

(12)

The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered (selections)

220

(8)

James M. Whitfield

228

(22)

America

228

(5)

How Long?

233

(7)

Prayer of the Oppressed

240

(1)

The Misanthropist

241

(5)

Lines on the Death of John Quincy Adams

246

(2)

The North Star

248

(2)

Charles L. Reason

250

(11)

Freedom

252

(5)

The Spirit Voice

257

(4)

George B. Vashon

261

(18)

Vincent Oge

263

(11)

A Life-Day

274

(5)

James Madison Bell

279

(11)

The Day and the War (selection)

279

(9)

Emancipation in the District of Columbia

288

(2)

Frances E. W. Harper

290

(9)

Bury Me in a Free Land

292

(1)

Ethiopia

293

(1)

Vashti

294

(2)

President Lincoln's Proclamation of Freedom

296

(1)

Fifteenth Amendment

297

(2)

Alexander Crummell

299

(2)

Hope for Africa (selection)

301

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Early Black American Writers

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