Introduction to Black Literature in America, from 1746 to the Present
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Title
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Introduction to Black Literature in America, from 1746 to the Present
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This edition
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"An Introduction to Black Literature in America, from 1746 to the Present" . Comp. Lindsay Patterson. New York: Publishers Co., 1968. xvii+302 pp.
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Other editions, reprints, and translations
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Revisions of 1st ed. 1969, 1970.
Revised ed. Cornwells Heights, PA: The Publishers Agency/The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, 1976, 1978. xvii+302 pp.
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Table of contents
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Contents (partial) (1968 ed.): A plan of peace office for the United States / Benjamin Banneker -- The future of the negro / Frederick Douglass -- A slave among slaves / Booker T. Washington -- Dreams / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The childhood of an ex-colored man / James Weldon Johnson -- The Negro renaissance : Jean Toomer and the Harlem writers of the 1920's / Arna Bontemps -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- Prologue of Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison -- Malcolm X is dead / John Oliver Killens -- Journey to Atlanta / James Baldwin -- Uncle Toms's Cabin: Alternate Ending / LeRoi Jones -- Writers: Black and White / Langston Hughes. -- . . . -- Fate and Bigger Thomas [from Native son] / Richard Wright (p. [162]-171) -- For my people / Margaret Walker (p. 219) . . . Games / George Houston Bass . . . Bibliography (pp. 299-300).
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Contents (1978 ed.): INTRODUCTION -- SECTION I. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ( 1746-1799). Introduction / Lindsay Patterson -- A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverence of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man / Briton Hammon -- The Kidnapping and Enslavement of Olaudah Equaino, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / Gustavus Vassa -- A Plan of Peace Office for the United States / Benjamin Banneker -- The Conversion of a Young Musician / John Marrant -- A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793 / Absalom Jones and Richard Allen -- Poetry [by] Lucy Terry ; Jupiter Hammon ; Phillis Wheatley.
SECTION II. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1800-1899). Introduction / Lindsay Patterson -- Letters from a Man of Color: On a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania / James Forten -- A Final Escape from American Slavery / Moses Roper -- A Freeman's Flight from the South / William G. Allen -- The German Invasion / James McCune Smith -- Colored American Patriots / William C. Neil -- Crispus Attacks / William Wells Brown -- The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and Her Needs / Alexander Crummell -- The Future of the Negro / Frederick Douglass -- A Slave among Slaves / Booker T. Washington -- Clotel in Slavery / William Wells Brown -- The Two Offers / Grances Ellen Watkins Harper -- The Goophered Grapevine / Charels Wadell Chesnutt -- Poetry [by] George Moses Horton ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ; Albery A. Whitman ; James Edwin Campbell ; Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Spirituals. Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep ; Go Tell It on the Mountain ; What You Gonna Name That Pretty Little Baby? ; Steal Away ; God's Gonna Set Dis World on Fire ; I Got a Home in Dat Rock ; No More Auction Block.
SECTION III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900-1968). Introduction / Lindsay Patterson -- 1900-1919. The Scapegoat / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Dreams / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The Childhood of an Ex-Colored Man / James Weldon Johnson -- Poetry [by] James Weldon Johnson -- Work Songs. Pick a Bale of Cotton ; South Carolina Chain Gang Song ; Good Morning, Captain -- Ballads. De Ballit of de Boll Weevil ; John Henry ; Stackalee -- Blues. Southern Blues ; How Long Blues ; Good Mornin' Blues -- Street Cries. Sweet Potato Man ; Crab Man ; Watermelon Vendor's Cry ; Cala Vendor's Cry ; Oyster Man's Cry -- 1920-1934. The Negro Renaissance: Jean Toomer and the Harlem Writers of the 1920's / Arna Bontemps -- Esther / Jean Toomer -- The Return / Zora Neale Hurston -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- Color Problems / Langston Hughes -- Contemporary Negro Poetry: 1914-1936 / Sterling A. Brown -- Poetry [by] Georgia Douglas Johnson ; Anne Spencer ; Claude McKay ; Jean Toomer ; Frank Horne ; Countee Cullen ; Langston Hughes ; Waring Cuney ; Arna Bontemps ; Sterling A. Brown -- 1935-1959. Fate and Bigger Thomas / Richard Wright -- Prologue of an Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison -- The Revolt of the Evil Fairies / Ted Poston -- Health Card / Frank Yerby -- The Almost White Boy / Willard Motley -- Son in the Afternoon / John A. Williams -- Barbados / Paule Marshall -- We're the Only Colored People Here / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Malcolm X is Dead / John Oliver Killens -- Journey to Atlanta / James Baldwin -- Poetry [by] Gwendolyn Brooks ; Melvin B. Tolson ; Fenton Johnson ; Gwendolyn B. Bennett ; Margaret Walker ; Margaret Danner ; Robert Hayden ; Samuel Allen --
1960's. A New Surge in Literature / Allan Morrison -- The Engagement Party / Robert Boles -- Direct Action / Mike Thelwell -- A New Day / Charles Wright -- Sarah / Martin J. Hamer -- Red Bonnet / Lindsay Patterson -- Old Blues Singers Never Die / Clifford Vincent Johnson -- Ruth's Story / Henry Van Dyke -- Uncle Tom's Cabin: Alternate Ending / LeRoi Jones -- Games: A One-Act Play / George Houston Bass -- Poetry [by] LeRoi Jones ; Jay Wright ; David Henderson ; Ted Joans ; Mari Evans ; Tom Dent ; G.C. Oden ; Julia Fields ; Calvin C. Hernton -- CRITICAL COMMENTARY. Reclaiming the Lost African Heritage / John Henrik Clarke -- Writers: Black and White / Langston Hughes -- The Negro Writer and His Materials / Loften Mitchell -- The Negro Writer and His Relationship to His Roots / Saunders Redding -- An Interview with Ralph Ellison / Alfred Chester and Vilma Howard -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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Reviews and notices of anthology
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Cited in
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original ed.: Kinnamon 1997: 462]
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Item Number
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A0084
Front cover (1968 ed.)