Early Negro American Writers: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions
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Title
Early Negro American Writers: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions
This edition
"Early Negro American Writers: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions" . Ed. Benjamin Brawley. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1935. ix+305 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations
• Repr. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1968, 1976. ix+305 pp.
• Repr. as "Early Black American Writers: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions". New York: Dover, 1970, 1992. ix+305 pp. [Detailed contents in WorldCat.] [Google Books preview https://books.google.com/books?id=K5kGwJvys_QC&lpg=PP1&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false ]
• Repr. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2013.
Table of contents
[Works and excerpts from:] Jupiter Hammon -- Phillis Wheatley -- Gustavus Vassa -- Benjamin Banneker -- Richard Allen and Absalom Jones -- Prince Hall -- Peter Williams -- George M. Horton -- David Walker -- Daniel A. Payne -- Josiah Henson -- William Wells Brown -- Frederick Douglass -- Martin R. Delany -- James M. Whitfield -- Charles L. Reason -- George B. Vashon -- James Madison Bell -- Frances E. W. Harper -- Alexander Crummell.
Reviews and notices of anthology
• n/a
Commentary on anthology
• "Brawley’s work is especially valuable for his commentary on the Negro writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He approaches his criticism with few illusions beyond those which are present in all of his criticism of literature, and he frankly confesses to the reader that the literature which he includes requires the broadest and most sympathetic standards to be worthy of the name" (John S. Lash. "The Anthologist and the Negro Author." "Phylon" 8.1 [1947]: 68-76, at 74).
• "Although this book does not contain a formal bibliography, it lists works by and about black writers (where possible) in the biographical essays on each of the twenty early black American writers—from Jupiter Hammon, the first black writer to appear in print in the United States (1760) to Frances E. W. Harper and Alexander Crummell" (Rowell 1972: 31).
• The volume collected "twenty authors, many of them otherwise inaccessible, from Hammon, Wheatley, and Equiano through the Civil War. The general introduction and the headnotes are substantial" (Kinnamon 1997: 466).
• "Although this book does not contain a formal bibliography, it lists works by and about black writers (where possible) in the biographical essays on each of the twenty early black American writers—from Jupiter Hammon, the first black writer to appear in print in the United States (1760) to Frances E. W. Harper and Alexander Crummell" (Rowell 1972: 31).
• The volume collected "twenty authors, many of them otherwise inaccessible, from Hammon, Wheatley, and Equiano through the Civil War. The general introduction and the headnotes are substantial" (Kinnamon 1997: 466).
Cited in
• Lash 1946: 723.
• Kallenbach 1979. (gives title erroneously as "Early American Negro Writers" refers to 1968 Books for Libraries P reprint)
• Kinnamon 1997: 466 (refers to original edition only, and gives date of publication as 1938).
Item Number
A0035