The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 1 : 1746 - 1920.

Intro -- The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature -- Copyright -- Table of Contents (by Chronology) -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Peface -- Introduction -- Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents (by Genre) -- Part One The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, and Slavery: c.1746-1830 -- Introduction -- Lucy Terry (c.1730-1821) -- Bars Fight (1746) -- Briton Hammon (dates unknown) -- Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (1760) -- Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784) -- From Poems on Various Subjects (1773) -- To Maecenas -- To the University of Cambridge, in New England -- On Being Brought from Africa to America -- On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769 -- On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 -- On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age -- On Recollection -- On Imagination -- To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &amp -- c. -- To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works -- A Farewell to America to Mrs. S.W. -- Jupiter Hammon (1711-c.1806) -- An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, Who Came from Africa at Eight Years of Age, and Soon Became Acquainted with the Gospel of Jesus Christ (1778) -- John Marrant (1755-1791) -- A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (1785) -- Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) -- Extracts from Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789, 1791) -- Chapter 1. The Author's Account of His Country, Their Manners and Customs, &amp -- c. -- Chapter 2. The Author's Birth and Parentage - His Being Kidnapped with His Sister - Horrors of a Slave Ship.

Chapter 3. The Author Is Carried to Virginia - Arrives in England - His Wonder at a Fall of Snow -- Chapter 4. A Particular Account of the Celebrated Engagement between Admiral Boscawen and Monsieur Le Clue -- Chapter 5. Various Interesting Instances of Oppression, Cruelty, and Extortion -- Chapter 10. Some Account of the Manner of the Author's Conversion to the Faith of Jesus Christ -- Chapter 12. Different Transactions of the Author's Life - Petition to the Queen - Conclusion -- David Walker (c.1785-1830) -- Extracts from Appeal in Four Articles -- Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (1829) -- Article 1. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery -- Article 2. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Ignorance -- Part Two The Literatures of Slavery and Freedom: c.1830-1865 -- Introduction -- Omar ibn Said (1770-1864) -- Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina (1831) -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself. (1845) -- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) -- William Wells Brown (1814-1884) -- Narrative of William Wells Brown, an American Slave. Written by Himself. (1847, 1850) -- The Escape -- or, a Leap for Freedom: A Drama in Five Acts (1858) -- Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) -- Extracts from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852) -- Chapter 1. Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered -- Chapter 2. Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States -- Chapter 3. American Colonization -- Chapter 4. Our Elevation in the United States -- Chapter 5. Means of Elevation -- Chapter 6. The United States Our Country.

Chapter 17. Emigration of the Colored People of the United States -- Chapter 23. A Glance at Ourselves - Conclusion -- Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1825-1900) -- Our Nig -- or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) -- Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself. (1861) -- Part Three The Literatures of Reconstruction,Racial Uplift, and the New Negroc.1865-1920Part Three -- Introduction -- Frank J. Webb (1828-1894) -- Two Wolves and a Lamb (1870) -- Marvin Hayle (1870) -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) -- Peculiar Sam, or the Underground Railroad: A Musical Drama in Four Acts (1879) -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) -- What Is a White Man? (1889) -- The Marrow of Tradition (1901) -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) -- From Sketches of Southern Life (1891) -- Aunt Chloe -- The Deliverance -- Aunt Chloe's Politics -- Learning to Read -- Church Building -- The Reunion -- Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) -- Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) -- Extract from A Voice from the South (1892) -- Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- From Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896) -- The Poet and His Song -- Accountability -- Frederick Douglass -- A Prayer -- Passion and Love -- An Ante-Bellum Sermon -- Ode to Ethiopia -- Whittier -- A Banjo Song -- To Louise -- Alice -- After the Quarrel -- Beyond the Years -- The Spellin'-Bee -- A Negro Love Song -- The Colored Soldiers -- Nature and Art -- When De Co'n Pone's Hot -- The Deserted Plantation -- We Wear the Mask -- Phyllis -- When Malindy Sings -- Extract from The Heart of Happy Hollow (1904) -- The Lynching of Jube Benson -- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) -- Extract from Up from Slavery (1901) -- Chapter 14. The Atlanta Exposition Address.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) -- The Souls of Black Folk (1903) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912, 1927) -- Glossary -- Timeline: 1746 to 1920 -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

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