Anthologies of African American Writing

Selected African American Writing from 1760 to 1910

"Selected African American Writing from 1760 to 1910". Ed. Arthur Paul Davis, J. Saunders Redding, and Joyce Ann Joyce. New York: Bantam, 1995. 300 pp.

• This is an abridged version of "The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present." Ed. Arthur P. Davis, J. Saunders Redding, and Joyce Ann Joyce. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Howard UP, 1991-92. xx+979 pp.

• The first edition of this work was published as "Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present." Ed. Arthur P. Davis and J. Saunders Redding. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. xviii+905 pp

Contents (1995 abridged ed.): To the University of Cambridge, in New-England ; On being brought from Africa to America ; On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 ; An hymn to the morning ; An hymn to the evening ; On imagination ; To his excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- An address to Miss Phillis Wheatly ; An address to the negroes of the state of New York / Jupiter Hammon -- From Equiano's travels / Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano) -- An acrostic for Julia Shepard ; The creditor to his proud debtor ; George Moses Horton, myself ; On liberty and slavery ; To Eliza ; Jefferson in a tight place: the fox is caught ; The slave ; Slavery ; Snaps for dinner, snaps for breakfast and snaps for supper ; Letter to Mr. Horace Greeley / George Moses Horton -- From Clotelle ; From My southern home / William Wells Brown -- My father's death ; Varieties / Harriet E. Wilson -- Hopes consummated / Frank J. Webb -- America ; How long? ; The north star / James Monroe Whitfield -- From The life and times of Frederick Douglass ; The fourth of July / Frederick Douglass -- The struggle for an education ; An address delivered at the opening of the Cotton States' Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, September, 1895 ; Address delivered at the Harvard Alumni dinner in 1896 / Booker T. Washington -- The slave auction ; The dying bondman ; Bury me in a free land ; A double standard ; Learning to read / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. -- Bro'r Adr'm Jimson's wedding: a Christmas story / Pauline E. Hopkins -- The Goophered grapevine ; The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chesnutt -- An ante-bellum sermon ; Ode to Ethiopia ; When de co'n pone's hot ; Signs of the times ; We wear the mask ; Chrismus on the plantation ; Anner 'Lizer's stumblin' block / Paul Laurence Dunbar.

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