Interesting essay question
Venture Smith:
Biographical introduction
"A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa"
Olaudah Equiano
Biographical introduction
all excerpts from "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano"
Harriet Jacobs
Biographical introduction
all excerpts from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Frederick Douglass
Biographical introduction
all excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
David Walker
Biographical introduction
Complete excerpt of David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles
Maria Stewart
Biographical introduction
"Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality"
"Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall"
From the Norton Anthology:
"Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance" Introduction
Booker T. Washington
Biographical introduction
All excerpts from Up From Slavery
W. E. B. Du Bois 686-689
Biographical introduction
All excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk
Anna Julia Cooper
Biographical introduction
"Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race"
Ida B. Wells Barnett
Biographical introduction
all excerpts from A Red Record
James Weldon Johnson
Biographical introduction
Chapters I-V of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Biographical introduction
All poems
Alain Locke
Biographical introduction
"The New Negro"
Marcus Garvey
Biographical introduction
"Africa for the Africans"
Claude McKay
Biographical introduction
All poems in anthology
Zora Neale Hurston
Biographical introduction
"Sweat"
"Characteristics of Negro Expression"
Jean Toomer
Biographical Introduction
Cane Chapters Karintha-Blood-Burning Moon
Langston Hughes
Biographical information
All of his poems
"The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
