Before Harlem : an anthology of African American literature from the long nineteenth century
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- ISBN: 9781621902027
- ISBN: 1621902021 (paperback : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9781621902034
- ISBN: 162190203X
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Computer data. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2016]
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General Note: | CatMonthString:july.19 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 677-684) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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