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Volume 1 Beginnings Through the Harlem Renaissance |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Talking Books |
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The Vernacular Tradition, Part 1 |
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3 | (7) |
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10 | (10) |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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Been in the Storm So Long |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? |
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17 | (1) |
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God's a-Gonna Trouble the Water |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (5) |
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21 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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Jack and Dinah Want Freedom |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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You May Go But This Will Bring You Back |
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25 | (1) |
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25 | (10) |
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25 | (3) |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (2) |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (1) |
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35 | (3) |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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38 | (16) |
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40 | (1) |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (21) |
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All God's Chillen Had Wings |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (1) |
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60 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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"Ah'll Beatcher Makin' Money" |
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61 | (3) |
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Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest |
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64 | (1) |
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"De Reason Niggers Is Working So Hard" |
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64 | (1) |
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65 | (1) |
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You Talk Too Much, Anyhow |
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66 | (1) |
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66 | (1) |
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Brer Rabbit Tricks Brer Fox Again |
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67 | (1) |
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The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story |
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68 | (1) |
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How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox |
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69 | (1) |
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The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf |
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70 | (2) |
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72 | (3) |
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The Literature of Slavery and Freedom 1746--1865 |
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75 | (13) |
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Jupiter Hammon (1711--1790/1806) |
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88 | (6) |
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89 | (2) |
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An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley |
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91 | (3) |
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Venture Smith (1729?-1805) |
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94 | (16) |
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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America |
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95 | (15) |
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Lucy Terry (ca. 1724--1821) |
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110 | (2) |
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111 | (1) |
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Olaudah Equiano (ca. 1745--1797) |
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112 | (25) |
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself |
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114 | (23) |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (9) |
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124 | (10) |
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134 | (2) |
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136 | (1) |
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Phillis Wheatley (1753?--1784) |
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137 | (14) |
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From Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral |
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139 | (12) |
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139 | (1) |
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[ Letter Sent by the Author's Master to the Publisher] |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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141 | (2) |
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To the University of Cambridge, in New-England |
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143 | (1) |
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On Being Brought from Africa to America |
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143 | (1) |
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On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770 |
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144 | (1) |
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To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, Etc. |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (2) |
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To S. M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works |
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148 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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To His Excellency General Washington |
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149 | (2) |
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151 | (8) |
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152 | (7) |
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David Walker (1785--1830) |
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159 | (12) |
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David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World |
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161 | (10) |
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161 | (3) |
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Article I Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery |
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164 | (7) |
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George Moses Horton (1797?--1883?) |
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171 | (5) |
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172 | (1) |
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On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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George Moses Horton, Myself |
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175 | (1) |
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Sojourner Truth (ca. 1799--1883) |
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176 | (5) |
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178 | (3) |
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From The Anti-Slavery Bugle, June 21, 1851 |
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178 | (1) |
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From The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1878 |
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178 | (3) |
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Maria W. Stewart (1803--1879) |
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181 | (5) |
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Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build |
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182 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, September 21, 1832 |
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183 | (3) |
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Solomon Northup (1807--?) |
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186 | (12) |
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From Twelve Years a Slave |
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190 | (8) |
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Martin R. Delany (1812--1885) |
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198 | (23) |
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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States |
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201 | (20) |
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Chapter I Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered |
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201 | (1) |
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Chapter II Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States |
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202 | (7) |
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Chapter V Means of Elevation |
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209 | (4) |
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Chapter XXIII Things as They Are |
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213 | (3) |
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Chapter XXIV A Glance at Ourselves---Conclusion |
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216 | (5) |
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Harriet Jacobs (ca. 1813--1897) |
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221 | (40) |
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
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224 | (37) |
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224 | (1) |
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224 | (3) |
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II The New Master and Mistress |
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227 | (3) |
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230 | (3) |
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X A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life |
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233 | (3) |
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236 | (3) |
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239 | (2) |
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241 | (2) |
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XXI The Loophole of Retreat |
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243 | (3) |
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XXIX Preparations for Escape |
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246 | (5) |
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251 | (2) |
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XL The Fugitive Slave Law |
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253 | (3) |
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256 | (5) |
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William Wells Brown (1814?--1884) |
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261 | (29) |
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Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave |
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263 | (7) |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (6) |
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Clotel; or, The President's Daughter |
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270 | (20) |
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270 | (5) |
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Chapter II Going to the South |
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275 | (4) |
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Chapter IV The Quadroon's Home |
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279 | (2) |
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Chapter XV To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow a Slave |
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281 | (2) |
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Chapter XIX Escape of Clotel |
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283 | (7) |
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Henry Highland Garnet (1815--1882) |
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290 | (6) |
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An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America |
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291 | (5) |
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Victor Sejour (1817--1874) |
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296 | (13) |
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298 | (11) |
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Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (ca. 1818--1907) |
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309 | (17) |
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Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House |
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310 | (16) |
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Chapter I Where I Was Born |
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310 | (4) |
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Chapter II Girlhood and Its Sorrows |
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314 | (3) |
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Chapter III How I Gained My Freedom |
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317 | (6) |
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Chapter IV In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis |
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323 | (3) |
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Frederick Douglass (1818--1895) |
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326 | (96) |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself |
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330 | (63) |
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My Bondage and My Freedom |
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393 | (9) |
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Chapter XXIII Introduced to the Abolitionists |
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393 | (3) |
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Chapter XXIV Twenty-One Months in Great Britain |
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396 | (6) |
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From What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852 |
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402 | (11) |
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass |
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413 | (9) |
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Second Part from Chapter XV. Weighed in the Balance |
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413 | (6) |
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Third Part Chapter 1. Later Life |
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419 | (3) |
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James M. Whitfield (1822--1871) |
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422 | (7) |
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423 | (4) |
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427 | (2) |
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William Craft (1824--1900) and Ellen Craft (1826--1891) |
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429 | (16) |
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From Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom |
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431 | (14) |
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Frances E. W. Harper (ca. 1825--1911) |
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445 | (27) |
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448 | (1) |
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449 | (1) |
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450 | (1) |
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451 | (2) |
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453 | (1) |
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454 | (1) |
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455 | (1) |
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456 | (1) |
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457 | (1) |
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An Appeal to My Country Women |
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458 | (2) |
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460 | (6) |
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466 | (2) |
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468 | (2) |
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[ Enthusiasm and Lofty Aspirations] |
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468 | (2) |
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470 | (2) |
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Harriet E. Wilson (1825--1900) |
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472 | (20) |
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Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North |
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474 | (18) |
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474 | (1) |
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Chapter I Mag Smith, My Mother |
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474 | (3) |
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Chapter II My Father's Death |
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477 | (3) |
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Chapter III A New Home for Me |
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480 | (5) |
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From Chapter VIII. Visitor and Departure |
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485 | (2) |
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Chapter X Perplexities.---Another Death |
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487 | (3) |
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Chapter XII The Winding Up of the Matter |
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490 | (2) |
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Hannah Crafts (Hannah Bond) (1826--?) |
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492 | (13) |
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The Bondswoman's Narrative |
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494 | (11) |
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From Chapter 1 [ In Childhood] |
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494 | (1) |
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From Chapter 12 [ A New Mistress] |
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495 | (3) |
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From Chapter 13 [ The Beautifying Powder] |
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498 | (4) |
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From Chapter 21 [ In Freedom] |
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502 | (3) |
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Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance, 1865--1919 |
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505 | (15) |
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Nicholas Said (ca. 1833--1882) |
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520 | (14) |
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522 | (12) |
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Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837--1914) |
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534 | (14) |
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535 | (1) |
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536 | (12) |
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536 | (5) |
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541 | (7) |
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Booker T. Washington (1856--1915) |
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548 | (32) |
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550 | (30) |
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Chapter I A Slave among Slaves |
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550 | (7) |
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557 | (7) |
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Chapter III The Struggle for an Education |
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564 | (8) |
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Chapter XIV The Atlanta Exposition Address |
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572 | (8) |
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Charles W. Chesnutt (1858--1932) |
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580 | (38) |
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582 | (9) |
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591 | (11) |
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602 | (8) |
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610 | (8) |
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Anna Julia Cooper (1858?--1964) |
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618 | (15) |
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Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race |
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619 | (14) |
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Pauline E. Hopkins (1859--1930) |
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633 | (36) |
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635 | (10) |
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Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's Wedding |
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645 | (11) |
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Famous Men of the Negro Race |
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656 | (6) |
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656 | (6) |
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Famous Women of the Negro Race |
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662 | (5) |
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V. Literary Workers (Concluded) |
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662 | (5) |
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Letter from Cordelia A. Condict and Pauline Hopkins's Reply (March 1903) |
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667 | (2) |
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862--1931) |
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669 | (10) |
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670 | (9) |
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Chapter I The Case Stated |
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670 | (6) |
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676 | (3) |
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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868--1963) |
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679 | (99) |
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684 | (2) |
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686 | (1) |
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687 | (73) |
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687 | (1) |
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I Of Our Spiritual Strivings |
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688 | (6) |
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III Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others |
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694 | (9) |
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IV Of the Meaning of Progress |
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703 | (6) |
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V Of the Wings of Atalanta |
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709 | (6) |
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VI Of the Training of Black Men |
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715 | (10) |
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X Of the Faith of the Fathers |
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725 | (8) |
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XI Of the Passing of the First-Born |
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733 | (4) |
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XII Of Alexander Crummell |
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737 | (5) |
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XIII Of the Coming of John |
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742 | (10) |
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752 | (8) |
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760 | (1) |
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760 | (11) |
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771 | (7) |
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James D. Corrothers (1869--1917) |
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778 | (2) |
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779 | (1) |
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780 | (1) |
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James Weldon Johnson (1871--1938) |
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780 | (114) |
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783 | (1) |
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Lift Every Voice and Sing |
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783 | (1) |
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O Black and Unknown Bards |
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784 | (1) |
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785 | (3) |
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788 | (2) |
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790 | (2) |
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792 | (1) |
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man |
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792 | (79) |
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The Book of American Negro Poetry Preface |
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871 | (23) |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906) |
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894 | (23) |
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896 | (1) |
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897 | (1) |
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898 | (1) |
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898 | (2) |
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900 | (2) |
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Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes |
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902 | (2) |
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904 | (1) |
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904 | (2) |
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906 | (1) |
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906 | (1) |
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907 | (1) |
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907 | (3) |
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910 | (1) |
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910 | (1) |
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911 | (2) |
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913 | (1) |
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913 | (1) |
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Black Samson of Brandywine |
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914 | (1) |
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915 | (1) |
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The Fourth of July and Race Outrages |
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915 | (2) |
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Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875--1935) |
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917 | (5) |
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918 | (1) |
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918 | (1) |
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919 | (1) |
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920 | (2) |
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William Stanley Braithwaite (1878--1962) |
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922 | (3) |
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922 | (1) |
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The House of Falling Leaves |
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923 | (1) |
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924 | (1) |
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Fenton Johnson (1888--1958) |
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925 | (4) |
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925 | (1) |
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926 | (3) |
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE, 1919--1940 |
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929 | (15) |
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Arthur A. Schomburg (1874--1938) |
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944 | (6) |
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The Negro Digs Up His Past |
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945 | (5) |
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Angelina Weld Grimke (1880--1958) |
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950 | (3) |
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951 | (1) |
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951 | (1) |
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When the Green Lies over the Earth |
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951 | (1) |
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952 | (1) |
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Anne Spencer (1882--1975) |
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953 | (3) |
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Before the Feast of Shushan |
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954 | (1) |
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955 | (1) |
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Hubert Harrison (1883--1927) |
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956 | (6) |
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The East St. Louis Horror |
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958 | (1) |
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959 | (3) |
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Jessie Redmon Fauset (ca. 1884--1961) |
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962 | (5) |
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Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral |
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963 | (4) |
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963 | (1) |
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Chapter I [ Black Philadelphia] |
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963 | (4) |
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967 | (15) |
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968 | (5) |
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973 | (9) |
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Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886--1966) |
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982 | (2) |
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983 | (1) |
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I Want to Die While You Love Me |
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983 | (1) |
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Marcus Garvey (1887--1940) |
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984 | (8) |
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986 | (3) |
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989 | (3) |
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992 | (8) |
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995 | (5) |
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995 | (4) |
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999 | (1) |
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Claude McKay (1889--1948) |
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1000 | (29) |
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1004 | (1) |
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1004 | (1) |
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1005 | (1) |
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1005 | (1) |
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1006 | (1) |
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1006 | (1) |
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1006 | (1) |
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1007 | (1) |
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1007 | (5) |
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Chapter XVII He Also Loved |
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1007 | (5) |
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1012 | (17) |
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1012 | (12) |
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From Chapter XVI The "Blue Cinema" |
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1024 | (5) |
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891--1960) |
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1029 | (50) |
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1032 | (8) |
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me |
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1040 | (3) |
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1043 | (7) |
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Characteristics of Negro Expression |
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1050 | (12) |
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1062 | (8) |
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1062 | (8) |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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1070 | (9) |
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1070 | (4) |
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1074 | (5) |
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Nella Larsen (1893--1964) |
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1079 | (62) |
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1080 | (61) |
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1141 | (77) |
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1143 | (75) |
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George Samuel Schuyler (1895--1977) |
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1218 | (19) |
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1219 | (3) |
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1222 | (15) |
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1222 | (8) |
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1230 | (7) |
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Rudolph Fisher (1897--1934) |
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1237 | (12) |
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1238 | (11) |
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Eric Walrond (1898--1966) |
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1249 | (11) |
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1251 | (9) |
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Paul Robeson (1898--1976) |
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1260 | (5) |
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1262 | (3) |
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Marita Bonner (1899--1971) |
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|
1265 | |
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On Being Young---a Woman---and Colored |
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|
1266 | |
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Sterling A. Brown (1901--1989) |
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1209 | (81) |
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1271 | (1) |
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When de Saints Go Ma'ching Home |
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1272 | (4) |
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1276 | (1) |
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1277 | (1) |
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1278 | (2) |
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1280 | (1) |
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1281 | (2) |
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1283 | (1) |
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1284 | (2) |
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1286 | (2) |
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|
1288 | (1) |
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|
1289 | (1) |
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Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902--1981) |
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1290 | (3) |
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1292 | (1) |
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|
1292 | (1) |
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Wallace Thurman (1902--1934) |
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|
1293 | (9) |
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|
1294 | (8) |
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Chapter XXI [ Harlem Salon] |
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1294 | (8) |
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Langston Hughes (1902--1967) |
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1302 | (37) |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
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1304 | (1) |
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1305 | (1) |
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1305 | (1) |
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1306 | (1) |
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1306 | (1) |
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1307 | (1) |
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1308 | (1) |
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Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret |
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1308 | (1) |
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1309 | (1) |
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1309 | (1) |
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1309 | (2) |
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1311 | (1) |
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1311 | (1) |
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Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover |
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1311 | (1) |
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1312 | (1) |
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1312 | (1) |
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1313 | (1) |
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1313 | (1) |
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1314 | (1) |
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1315 | (1) |
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1316 | (1) |
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1317 | (1) |
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1318 | (1) |
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1318 | (1) |
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1319 | (1) |
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1319 | (1) |
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1319 | (1) |
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The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain |
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1320 | (4) |
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1324 | (13) |
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When the Negro Was in Vogue |
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1324 | (6) |
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1330 | (4) |
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1334 | (3) |
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1337 | (2) |
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Nicolas Guillen (1902-1989) |
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1339 | (6) |
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1341 | (1) |
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1342 | (3) |
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Countee cullen (1903--1946) |
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1345 | (13) |
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1347 | (1) |
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1348 | (1) |
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1348 | (1) |
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1349 | (1) |
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1349 | (5) |
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1354 | (2) |
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To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time |
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|
1356 | (2) |
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|
1358 | (1) |
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Richard Bruce Nugent (1906--1987) |
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|
1358 | (12) |
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|
1360 | (10) |
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Helene Johnson (1907--1995) |
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|
1370 | (3) |
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|
1371 | (1) |
|
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem |
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|
1371 | (1) |
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|
1372 | (1) |
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|
1373 | (40) |
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|
1383 | (26) |
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|
1383 | (8) |
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|
1391 | (1) |
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Literature Of Slavery And Freedom |
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|
1392 | (5) |
|
Literature Of The Reconstruction To The New Negro Renaissance |
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|
1397 | (3) |
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|
1400 | (9) |
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Permissions Acknowledgments |
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|
1409 | (4) |
Index |
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