The Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays. Illustrated

Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Nella Larsen, Elizabeth Keckley, Charles W. Chesnutt, William Wells Brown, Louis Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jane Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet E. Wilson, Mary Prince, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Henry Box Brown, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Countee Cullen, Frances E. W. Harper, Seth Concklin, Harry Grimes, Matilda Mahoney, Aunt Hannah Moore, John Henry Hill, Theophilus Collins, Mary Frances Melvin, Charles Gilbert, James Hambleton Christian, Samuel Green, Alfred S. Thornton, Jamie Griffin

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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was a great period of flowering in literature and the arts, influenced both by writers who came North in the Great Migration and those who were immigrants from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands.

Contents:

Novels and short stories

William Wells Brown

CLOTEL; OR, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER

Frederick Douglass

THE HEROIC SLAVE

Harriet E. Wilson

OUR NIG; OR, SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE OF A FREE BLACK

Nella Larsen

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Charles W. Chesnutt

Paul Laurence Dunbar