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African-American Literature is the sub-category of American Literature that includes work produced in the United States by writers of African descent and directly pertains to the experiences and viewpoints of African-Americans. In this collection, we also include works by authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe. While not an African-American, Stowe's work attempted to depict the lives of African-Americans living under slavery. Work such as this had a profound effect on public attitudes toward African-Americans and slavery in the United States.
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- Frederick Douglass
- "Excerpt from Frederick Douglass' Speech to the People of Rochester, New York on the Hypocrisy of Slavery, July 4, 1852" (Reading Level: 8)
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- The Souls of Black Folk (Reading Level: 10.2)
- The Forethought
- Chapter 1: Of Our Spiritual Striving
- Chapter 2: Of the Dawn of Freedom
- Chapter 3: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
- Chapter 4: Of the Meaning of Progress
- Chapter 5: Of the Wings of Atalanta
- Chapter 6: Of the Training of Black Men
- Chapter 7: Of the Black Belt
- Chapter 8: Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece
- Chapter 9: Of the Sons of Master and Man
- Chapter 10: Of the Faith of the Fathers
- Chapter 11: Of the Passing of the First-Born
- Chapter 12: Of Alexander Crummell
- Chapter 13: Of the Coming of John
- Chapter 14: Of the Sorrow Songs
- The Afterthought
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Heart of Happy Hollow (Reading Level: 6.5)
- Foreward
- Chapter 1: Scapegoat
- Chapter 2: One Christmas at Shiloh
- Chapter 3: The Mission of Mr. Scatters
- Chapter 4: A Matter of Doctrine
- Chapter 5: Old Abe's Conversion
- Chapter 6: The Race Question
- Chapter 7: A Defender of the Faith
- Chapter 8: Cahoots
- Chapter 9: The Promoter
- Chapter 10: The Wisdom of Silence
- Chapter 11: The Triumph of Ol' Mis' Pease
- Chapter 12: The Lynching of Jube Benson
- Chapter 13: Schwalliger's Philanthropy
- Chapter 14: The Interference of Patsy Ann
- Chapter 15: The Home-Coming of 'Rastus Smith
- Chapter 16: The Boy and the Bayonet
- The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Reading Level: 6.5)
- Lyrics of Lowly Life
- Poem 1: "Ere Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes"
- Poem 2: "The Poet and His Song"
- Poem 3: "Retort"
- Poem 4: "Accountability"
- Poem 5: "Frederick Douglass"
- Poem 6: "Life"
- Poem 7: "The Lesson"
- Poem 8: "The Rising of the Storm"
- Poem 9: "Sunset"
- Poem 10: "The Old Apple-Tree"
- Poem 11: "A Prayer"
- Poem 12: "Passion and Love"
- Poem 13: "The Seedling"
- Poem 14: "Promise"
- Poem 15: "Fulfilment"
- Poem 16: "Song"
- Poem 17: "An Ante-Bellum Sermon"
- Poem 18: "Ode to Ethiopia"
- Poem 19: "The Corn-Stalk Fiddle"
- Poem 20: "The Master-Player"
- Poem 21: "The Mystery"
- Poem 22: "Not They Who Soar"
- Poem 23: "Whittier"
- Poem 24: "Two Songs"
- Poem 25: "A Banjo Song"
- Poem 26: "Longing"
- Poem 27: "The Path"
- Poem 28: "The Lawyer's Way"
- Poem 29: "Ode for Memorial Day"
- Poem 30: "Premonition"
- Poem 31: "Retrospection"
- Poem 32: "Unexpressed"
- Poem 33: "Song of Summer"
- Poem 34: "Spring Song"
- Poem 35: "To Louise"
- Poem 36: "The Rivals"
- Poem 37: "The Lover and the Moon"
- Poem 38: "Conscience and Remorse"
- Poem 39: "Ione"
- Poem 40: "Religion"
- Poem 41: "Deacon Jones' Grievance"
- Poem 42: "Alice"
- Poem 43: "After the Quarrel"
- Poem 44: "Beyond the Years"
- Poem 45: "After a Visit"
- Poem 46: "Curtain"
- Poem 47: "The Spellin'-Bee"
- Poem 48: "Keep a-plugging Away"
- Poem 49: "Night of Love"
- Poem 50: "Columbian Ode"
- Poem 51: "A Border Ballad"
- Poem 52: "An Easy-goin' Feller"
- Poem 53: "A Negro Love Song"
- Poem 54: "The Dilletante: A Modern Type"
- Poem 55: "By the Stream"
- Poem 56: "The Colored Soldiers"
- Poem 57: "Nature and Art"
- Poem 58: "After While"
- Poem 59: "The Ol' Tunes"
- Poem 60: "Melancholia"
- Poem 61: "The Wooing"
- Poem 62: "Merry Autumn"
- Poem 63: "When De Co'n Pone's Hot"
- Poem 64: "Ballad"
- Poem 65: "The Change Has Come"
- Poem 66: "Comparison"
- Poem 67: "A Corn-Song"
- Poem 68: "Discovered"
- Poem 69: "Disappointed"
- Poem 70: "Invitation to Love"
- Poem 71: "He Had His Dream"
- Poem 72: "Good-Night"
- Poem 73: "A Coquette Conquered"
- Poem 74: "Nora: A Serenade"
- Poem 75: "October"
- Poem 76: "A Summer's Night"
- Poem 77: "Ships that Pass in the Night"
- Poem 78: "The Delinquent"
- Poem 79: "Dawn"
- Poem 80: "A Drowsy Day"
- Poem 81: "Dirge"
- Poem 82: "Hymn"
- Poem 83: "Preparation"
- Poem 84: "The Deserted Plantation"
- Poem 85: "The Secret"
- Poem 86: "The Wind and the Sea"
- Poem 87: "Riding to Town"
- Poem 88: "We Wear the Mask"
- Poem 89: "The Meadow Lark"
- Poem 90: "One Life"
- Poem 91: "Changing Time"
- Poem 92: "Dead"
- Poem 93: "A Confidence"
- Poem 94: "Phyllis"
- Poem 95: "Right's Security"
- Poem 96: "If"
- Poem 97: "The Song"
- Poem 98: "Signs of the Times"
- Poem 99: "Why Fades a Dream"
- Poem 100: "The Sparrow"
- Poem 101: "Speakin' O' Christmas"
- Poem 102: "Lonesome"
- Poem 103: "Growin' Gray"
- Poem 104: "To the Memory of Mary Young"
- Poem 105: "When Malindy Sings"
- Poem 106: "The Party"
- Lyrics of the Heartside
- Poem 107: "Loves Apotheosis"
- Poem 108: "The Paradox"
- Poem 109: "Over the Hills"
- Poem 110: "With the Lark"
- Poem 111: "In Summer"
- Poem 112: "The Mystic Sea"
- Poem 113: "A Sailor's Song"
- Poem 114: "The Bohemian"
- Poem 115: "Absence"
- Poem 116: "Her Thoughts and His"
- Poem 117: "The Right to Die"
- Poem 118: "Behind the Arras"
- Poem 119: "When the Old Man Smokes"
- Poem 120: "The Garrett"
- Poem 121: "To E.H.K."
- Poem 122: "A Bridal Measure"
- Poem 123: "Vengeance is Sweet"
- Poem 124: "A Hymn—After Reading 'Lead, Kindly Light"
- Poem 125: "Just Whistle a Bit"
- Poem 126: "The Barrier"
- Poem 127: "Dreams"
- Poem 128: "The Dreamer"
- Poem 129: "Waiting"
- Poem 130: "The End of the Chapter"
- Poem 131: "Sympathy"
- Poem 132: "Love and Grief"
- Poem 133: "Love's Chastening"
- Poem 134: "Mortality"
- Poem 135: "Love"
- Poem 136: "She Gave Me a Rose"
- Poem 137: "Dream Song. I"
- Poem 138: "Dream Song. II"
- Poem 139: "Christmas in the Heart"
- Poem 140: "The King is Dead"
- Poem 141: "Theology"
- Poem 142: "Resignation"
- Poem 143: "Love's Humility"
- Poem 144: "Precedent"
- Poem 145: "She Told Her Beads"
- Poem 146: "Little Lucy Landman"
- Poem 147: "The Gourd"
- Poem 148: "The Knight"
- Poem 149: "Thou Art My Lute"
- Poem 150: "The Phantom Kiss"
- Poem 151: "Communion"
- Poem 152: "Mare Rubrum"
- Poem 153: "In an English Garden"
- Poem 154: "The Crisis"
- Poem 155: "The Conquerors (Black Troops in Cuba)"
- Poem 156: "Alexander Crummell - Dead"
- Poem 157: "When All is Done"
- Poem 158: "The Poet and the Baby"
- Poem 159: "Distinction"
- Poem 160: "The Sum"
- Poem 161: "Sonnet (On an Old Book With Uncut Leaves)"
- Poem 162: "On the Sea Wall"
- Poem 163: "To a Lady Playing the Harp"
- Poem 164: "Confessional"
- Poem 165: "Misapprehension"
- Poem 166: "Prometheus"
- Poem 167: "Love's Phases"
- Poem 168: "For the Man Who Fails"
- Poem 169: "Harriet Beecher Stowe"
- Poem 170: "Vagrants"
- Poem 171: "A Winter's Day"
- Poem 172: "My Little March Girl"
- Poem 173: "Remembered"
- Poem 174: "Love Despoiled"
- Poem 175: "The Lapse"
- Poem 176: "The Warriors Prayer"
- Poem 177: "Farewell to Arcady"
- Poem 178: "The Voice of the Banjo"
- Poem 179: "The Stirrup Cup"
- Poem 180: "A Choice"
- Humour and Dialect
- Poem 181: "Then and Now"
- Poem 182: "At Cheshire Cheese"
- Poem 183: "My Corn-Cob Pipe"
- Poem 184: "In August"
- Poem 185: "The Disturber"
- Poem 186: "Expectation"
- Poem 187: "Lover's Lane"
- Poem 188: "Protest"
- Poem 189: "Hymn"
- Poem 190: "Little Brown Baby"
- Poem 191: "Time to Tinker' Roun'!"
- Poem 192: "The Real Question"
- Poem 193: "Jilted"
- Poem 194: "The News"
- Poem 195: "Chrismus on the Plantation"
- Poem 196: "Angelina"
- Poem 197: "Foolin' Wid de Seasons"
- Poem 198: "My Sort o' Man"
- Poem 199: "Possum"
- Poem 200: "On the Road"
- Poem 201: "A Death Song"
- Poem 202: "A Back-Log Song"
- Poem 203: "Lullaby"
- Poem 204: "The Photograph"
- Poem 205: "Jealous"
- Poem 206: "Parted"
- Poem 207: "Temptation"
- Poem 208: "Possum Trot"
- Poem 209: "Dely"
- Poem 210: "Breaking the Charm"
- Poem 211: "Hunting Song"
- Poem 212: "A Letter"
- Poem 213: "Chrismus is A-Comin"
- Poem 214: "A Cabin Tale&mdashThe Young Master Asks for a Story"
- Poem 215: "At Candle-Lightin' Time"
- Poem 216: "Whistling Sam"
- Poem 217: "How Lucy Backslid"
- Lyrics of Love and Laughter
- Poem 218: "Two Little Boots"
- Poem 219: "To the Road"
- Poem 220: "A Spring Wooing"
- Poem 221: "Joggin' Eerlong"
- Poem 222: "In May"
- Poem 223: "Dreams"
- Poem 224: "The Tryst"
- Poem 225: "A Plea"
- Poem 226: "The Dove"
- Poem 227: "A Warm Day in Winter"
- Poem 228: "Snowin'"
- Poem 229: "Keep a Song Up on de Way"
- Poem 230: "The Turning of the Babies in the Bed"
- Poem 231: "The Dance"
- Poem 232: "Soliloquy of a Turkey"
- Poem 233: "Fishing"
- Poem 234: "A Plantation Portrait"
- Poem 235: "A Little Christmas Basket"
- Poem 236: "The Valse"
- Poem 237: "Response"
- Poem 238: "My Sweet Brown Gal"
- Poem 239: "Spring Fever"
- Poem 240: "The Visitor"
- Poem 241: "Song"
- Poem 242: "The Colored Band"
- Poem 243: "To a Violet on All Saint's Day"
- Poem 244: "Inspiration"
- Poem 250: "My Lady of Castle Grand"
- Poem 246: "Drizzle"
- Poem 247: "De Critter's Dance"
- Poem 248: "When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers"
- Poem 250: "Lincoln"
- Poem 250: "Encouragement"
- Poem 251: "The Boogah Man"
- Poem 252: "The Wraith"
- Poem 253: "Silence"
- Poem 254: "Whip–Poor–Will and Katy–Did"
- Poem 255: "Long To'ds Night"
- Poem 256: "A Grievance"
- Poem 257: "Dinah Kneading Dough"
- Poem 258: "To a Captious Critic"
- Poem 259: "Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine"
- Poem 260: "In the Morning"
- Poem 261: "The Poet"
- Poem 262: "A Florida Night"
- Poem 263: "Differences"
- Poem 264: "Long Ago"
- Poem 265: "A Plantation Melody"
- Poem 266: "A Spiritual"
- Poem 267: "The Memory of Martha"
- Poem 268: "W'en I Gits Home"
- Poem 269: "Howdy, Honey, Howdy"
- Poem 270: "The Unsung Heroes"
- Poem 271: "The Pool"
- Poem 272: "Possession"
- Poem 273: "The Old Front Gate"
- Poem 274: "Dirge For a Soldier"
- Poem 275: "A Frolic"
- Poem 276: "Noddin' By De Fire"
- Poem 277: "Love's Castle"
- Poem 278: "Morning Song of Love"
- Poem 279: "On a Clean Book (To F.N.)"
- Poem 280: "To the Eastern Shore"
- Poem 281: "Reluctance"
- Poem 282: "Ballade"
- Poem 283: "L'envoi"
- Poem 284: "Speakin' At De Cou't–House"
- Poem 285: "Black Samson of Brandywine"
- Poem 286: "The Looking-Glass"
- Poem 287: "A Misty Day"
- Poem 288: "Li'l Gal"
- Poem 289: "Douglass"
- Poem 290: "When Sam'l Sings"
- Poem 291: "Booker T. Washington"
- Poem 292: "The Monk's Walk"
- Poem 293: "Love-Song"
- Poem 294: "Slow Through the Dark"
- Poem 295: "The Murdered Lover"
- Poem 296: "Philosophy"
- Poem 297: "Preference"
- Poem 298: "The Debt"
- Poem 299: "On the Dedication of Dorothy Hall—Tuskeegee, Ala., April 22, 1901."
- Poem 300: "A Roadway"
- Poem 301: "By Rugged Ways"
- Poem 302: "Love's Season"
- Poem 303: "To a Dead Friend"
- Poem 304: "To the South—On Its New Slavery"
- Poem 305: "The Haunted Oak"
- Poem 306: "Weltschmertz"
- Poem 307: "Robert Gould Shaw"
- Poem 308: "Roses"
- Poem 309: "A Love Song"
- Poem 310: "Itching Heels"
- Poem 311: "To an Ingrate"
- Poem 312: "In the Tents of Akbar"
- Poem 313: "The Fount of Tears"
- Poem 314: "Life's Tragedy"
- Poem 315: "De Way T'ings Come"
- Poem 316: "Noon"
- Poem 317: "At the Tavern"
- Poem 318: "Death"
- Poem 319: "Night, Dim Night"
- Lyrics of Love and Sorrow
- Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
- Poem 321: "A Boy's Summer Song"
- Poem 322: "The Sand-Man"
- Poem 323: "Johnny Speaks"
- Poem 324: "Winter-Song"
- Poem 325: "A Christmas Folksong"
- Poem 326: "The Forest Greeting"
- Poem 327: "The Lily of the Valley"
- Poem 328: "Encouraged"
- Poem 329: "To J.Q."
- Poem 330: "Diplomacy"
- Poem 331: "Scamp"
- Poem 332: "Wadin' In De Crick"
- Poem 333: "The Quilting"
- Poem 334: "Parted"
- Poem 335: "Forever"
- Poem 336: "The Plantation Child's Lullaby"
- Poem 337: "Twilight"
- Poem 338: "Curiousity"
- Poem 339: "Opportunity"
- Poem 340: "Puttin' the Baby Away"
- Poem 341: "The Fisher Child's Lullaby"
- Poem 342: "Faith"
- Poem 343: "The Farm Child's Lullaby"
- Poem 344: "The Place Where the Rainbow Ends"
- Poem 350: "Hope"
- Poem 346: "Appreciation"
- Poem 347: "A Song"
- Poem 348: "Day"
- Poem 349: "To Dan"
- Poem 350: "What's the Use"
- Poem 351: "A Lazy Day"
- Poem 352: "Advice"
- Poem 353: "Limitations"
- Poem 354: "A Golden Day"
- Poem 355: "The Unlucky Apple"
- Poem 356: "The Discovery"
- Poem 357: "Morning"
- Poem 358: "The Awakening"
- Poem 359: "Love's Draft"
- Poem 360: "A Musical"
- Poem 361: "Twell De Night Is Pas"
- Poem 362: "Blue"
- Poem 363: "Dreamin' Town"
- Poem 364: "At Night"
- Poem 365: "Kidnaped"
- Poem 366: "Compensation"
- Poem 367: "Winter's Approach"
- Poem 368: "Anchored"
- Poem 369: "The Veteran"
- Poem 370: "Yesterday and Tomorrow"
- Poem 371: "The Change"
- Poem 372: "The Chase"
- Poem 373: "Suppose"
- Poem 374: "The Death of the First Born"
- Poem 375: "Bein' Back Home"
- Poem 376: "The Old Cabin"
- Poem 377: "Despair"
- Poem 378: "Circumstances Altar Cases"
- Poem 379: "Till the Wind Gets Right"
- Poem 380: "A Summer Night"
- Poem 381: "At Sunset Time"
- Poem 382: "Night"
- Poem 383: "At Loafing-Holt"
- Poem 384: "When a feller's Itchin' To Be Spanked"
- Poem 385: "To River of Ruin"
- Poem 386: "To Her"
- Poem 387: "A Love Letter"
- Poem 388: "After Many Days"
- Poem 389: "Liza May"
- Poem 390: "The Masters"
- Poem 391: "Trouble In De Kitchen"
- Poem 392: "Christmas"
- Poem 393: "Roses and Pearls"
- Poem 394: "Rain-Songs"
- Poem 395: "A Lost Dream"
- Poem 396: "A Song"
- Miscellaneous Poems
- Poem 397: "The Capture"
- Poem 398: "When Winter Darkening All Around"
- Poem 399: "From the Porch at Runnymede"
- Poem 400: "Equipment"
- Poem 401: "Evening"
- Poem 402: "To Pfrimmer"
- Poem 403: "To the Miami"
- Poem 404: "Christmas Carol"
- Poem 405: "A Summer Pastoral"
- Poem 406: "In Summer Time"
- Poem 407: "A Thanksgiving Poem"
- Poem 408: "Nutting Song"
- Poem 409: "Love's Pictures"
- Poem 410: "The Old Homestead"
- Poem 411: "On the Death of W.C."
- Poem 412: "An Old Memory"
- Poem 413: "A Career"
- Poem 414: "On the River"
- Poem 415: "Poor Withered Rose—A Song"
- Poem 416: "Worn Out"
- Poem 417: "James Whitcomb Riley"
- Poem 418: "A Madrigal"
- Poem 419: "A Starry Night"
- Poem 420: "A Lyric"
- Poem 421: "How Shall I Woo Thee"
- James Weldon Johnson
- Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Reading Level: 9)
- "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (Reading Level: 10)
- Selections from Jubilee Songs: Complete. As Sung By The Jubilee Singers, of Fisk University, Under the Auspices of the American Missionary Association. (Reading Level: 6.4)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (Told to the Children) (Reading Level: 3.7)
- Preface: About This Book
- Chapter 1: Uncle Tom and Little Harry are Sold
- Chapter 2: Eliza Runs Away With Little Harry
- Chapter 3: The Morning After
- Chapter 4: The Chase
- Chapter 5: Eliza Finds a Refuge
- Chapter 6: Uncle Tom Says Good-Bye
- Chapter 7: Master George and Uncle Tom
- Chapter 8: Uncle Tom Meets Eva
- Chapter 9: Eliza Among the Quakers
- Chapter 10: Uncle Tom's New Home
- Chapter 11: Uncle Tom's Letter
- Chapter 12: Aunt Chloe Goes to Louisville
- Chapter 13: George Fights for Freedom
- Chapter 14: Aunt Dinah
- Chapter 15: Topsy
- Chapter 16: Eva and Topsy
- Chapter 17: Eva's Last Good-Bye
- Chapter 18: Uncle Tom's New Master
- Chapter 19: George and Eliza Find Freedom
- Chapter 20: Uncle Tom Finds Freedom
- Chapter 21: George Shelby Frees His Slaves
- Sojourner Truth
- "Ain't I a Woman?", Speech by Sojourner Truth (Reading Level: 3.6)
- Booker T. Washington
- Up From Slavery (Reading Level: 9.9)
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: A Slave Among Slaves
- Chapter 2: Boyhood Days
- Chapter 3: The Struggle For an Education
- Chapter 4: Helping Others
- Chapter 5: The Reconstruction Period
- Chapter 6: Black Race and Red Race
- Chapter 7: Early Days at Tuskegee
- Chapter 8: Teaching School in a Stable and a Hen-House
- Chapter 9: Anxious Days and Sleepless Nights
- Chapter 10: A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw
- Chapter 11: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie on Them
- Chapter 12: Raising Money
- Chapter 13: Two Thousand Miles For a Five-Minute Speech
- Chapter 14: The Atlanta Exposition Address
- Chapter 15: The Secret of Success in Public Speaking
- Chapter 16: Europe
- Chapter 17: Last Words
- Ida B. Wells
- "Lynch Law in America", Speech by Ida B. Wells in Chicago, 1900 (Reading Level: 9.3)
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