Contents by Date
Contents by Genre
Acknowledgments
Introduction
SERMONS AND SPEECHES
Absalom Jones (1746-1818)
ESSAYS AND JOURNALISM
Samuel Cornish (1795-1858)and John Russwurm (1799-1851)
POETRY
FICTION
George Moses Horton (1797-1883?)
David Walker (1796?-1830)
Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879)
Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882)
Ann Plato (1824-?)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
James McCune Smith (1813-1865)
William J. Wilson (1818-?)
James Monroe Whitfield(1822-1871)
Joseph C. Holly (1825-1855)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
Peter Randolph (1825?-1897)
Elymas Payson Rogers (1815-1861)
J. W. Loguen (1813-1872)
Martin R. Delany (1812-1885)
Harriet E. Wilson (1825?-1863?)
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897)
John Willis Menard (1838-1893)
Solomon G. Brown (1829-1906)
J. Anderson Raymond (?-?)
Edmonia Goodelle Highgate (1844-1870)
Alexander Crummell (1819-1898)
Henrietta Cordelia Ray(1849-1916)
Timothy Thomas Fortune(1856-1928)
Charles Waddell Chesnutt(1858-1932)
Josephine D. Henderson Heard (1861-1921)
Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964)
David Bryant Fulton (1863?-1941)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
Fannie Barrier Williams(1855-1944)
Amanda Smith (1837-1915)
Katherine Davis Tillman (1870-?)
Richard Theodore Greener(1844-1922)
Victoria Earle Matthews(1861-1907)
Daniel Webster Davis (1862-1913)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Olivia Ward Bush-Banks(1869-1944)
Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933)
William Hannibal Thomas(1843-1935)
A Gude Deekun (?-?)
James D. Corrothers (1869-1917)
Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1882-1939)
Ruth D. Todd (1878-?)
William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962)
Augustus Hodges (1854-?)
Marie Louise Burgess-Ware(ca. 1870-?)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Effie Waller Smith (1879-1960)
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
Kelly Miller (1863-1939)
Thomas Horatius Malone(ca. 1872-?)
Priscilla Jane Thompson(1871-1942)
Clara Ann Thompson (1869-1949)
S. Laing Williams (1863-?)
Joseph Seamon Cotter (1861-1949)
Maggie Pogue Johnson(1880?-1957?)
Bibliography of Included Works
Biographical Sources
Secondary Sources
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