| Description |
lxi, 706 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 366 |
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Library of America ; 366.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Briton Hammon -- Jupiter Hammon -- Phillis Cogswell -- Phillis Wheatley -- Cesar Lyndon -- Arthur -- Andrew, "A Negro Servant" -- Newton Prince -- Richard Peronneau -- Lucy Pernam -- James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw -- Sip Wood -- Felix Holbrook -- "The Sons of Africa" -- Cuffee Wright -- Peter Bestes, Sambo Freeman, Felix Holbrook, and Chester Joie -- "Crispus Attucks" -- Phillis Wheatley -- Kudjo Holms -- "A Son of Africa" -- "A Great Number of Blacks" -- Cesar Sarter -- Bristol Lambee -- Lemuel Haynes -- Antonio Muray -- Scipio Fayerweather -- Sezor Phelps -- Lancaster Hill, Peter Bess, Brister Slenser, Prince Hall, and others -- Prince Demah -- Jupiter Hammon -- Prince Hall -- Judea Moore -- Ofodobendo Wooma, or "Andrew, a member of the Moravian church" -- Prime and Prince -- Great Prince, Little Prince, Luke, and others -- Pomp -- Phillis Wheatley and John Peters -- Nero Brewster and "Others, natives of Africa" -- Adam -- John Cuffe and Paul Cuffe -- "The poor and oppressed Negro servants" -- Thomas Nichols -- Murphy Stiel -- "A Black Whig" -- Cato -- "Negroes who obtained freedom" -- "An African American" -- Cudjo Vernon -- "An Œthiopian" -- Belinda Sutton -- "Vox Africanorum" -- Judith Jackson -- Ned Griffin -- Prince Hall -- Absalom Jones -- Sarah Greene -- John Marrant -- Jane Coggeshall -- Johnson Green -- Jupiter Hammon -- Presence Flucker -- James Armistead Lafayette -- Anthony Taylor and the Free African Union Society of Newport -- Daphney Demah -- Absalom Jones and Richard Allen -- Cyrus Bustill -- "Humanio" -- "A number of Black inhabitants of Providence" -- "The Blacks of New Haven City" -- Olaudah Equiano -- James Durham -- Bristol Yamma and James McKenzie -- Margaret Blucke -- Benjamin Banneker -- "Africanus" -- Cyrus Bustill, William White, and others -- Cynthia Cuffee -- Yamboo -- Thomas Peters -- Thomas Cole, Peter Bassnett Matthews, and Matthew Webb -- "J.-B." -- Absalom Jones and others -- David Simpson -- Stephen Blucke -- George Liele -- Susana Smith and Sarah Peters -- Prince Hall -- John Moore -- David George -- John Morris, William Morris, and others -- Absalom Jones and Richard Allen -- Citizens of South Carolina -- Peter McNelly -- Cato Hanker -- Absalom Jones and others -- Judith Cocks -- Margaret Lee -- The African Society -- James Hemings -- William Hamilton -- Anonymous -- Boston King -- Richard Allen -- Anonymous -- Jupiter Nicholson, Jacob Nicholson, Job Albert, and Thomas Pritchet -- Harry Cuff, and Cato -- Prince Hall -- Margaret Moore -- Abraham Johnstone -- Patty Gipson -- Abraham Jones -- Venture Smith -- Primus Grant and others -- Lemuel Haynes -- John Carruthers Stanly -- Lemuel Overnton -- Joshua Johnson -- William Godfrey -- Richard Allen -- The people of colour, Freemen withing the city and suburbs of Philadelphia -- James Forten -- George Middleton -- Sylvia -- Andrew Bryan. |
| Summary |
This groundbreaking anthology of Black writing during the Revolutionary Era features over 200 poems, letters, sermons, newspaper advertisements, slave narratives, travel accounts from over 100 different authors and reveals the richness and diversity of the Black experience in those years. |
| Subject |
Authors, Black -- United States.
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African American authors -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Basker, James G., editor.
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Seary, Nicole A., editor.
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Gordon-Reed, Annette, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781598537345 |
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1598537342 |
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