Bondage, Freedom, and Beyond: The Prose of Black Americans
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Title
Bondage, Freedom, and Beyond: The Prose of Black Americans
This edition
"Bondage, Freedom, and Beyond: The Prose of Black Americans" . Comp. Addison Gayle, Jr. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday/Zenith Books, 1971. xiii+154 pp.
Table of contents
● Introduction
I. THE DARK WINGS OF SLAVERY
● Henry Highland Garnet / Your Grievances Are Many
● Charles Lenox Remond / Every Slave Has the Right to Be Free
● Josephine Brown / We Had to Occupy a Seat Apart
● Frederick Douglass / Slavery Is the Disease and Its Abolition Is Essential
● Henry Guidon / Well, After Freedom . . .
● Frank A. Patterson / Sherman's Men
● Jourdon Anderson / To My Old Master
● Richard T. Greener / The Black Man Must Leave the South
II. TO SECURE THIS FREEDOM
● Booker T. Washington / The masses of Us Are to Live by the Production of Our Hands
● Kelly Miller / The People Did Not Choose Mr. Washington as a Leader
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Of Course We Will Not Accept One Jot or Tittle Less than Full Manhood Rights
● Marcus Garvey / The New Negro
● A. Philip Randolph / The Reasons for This State of Mind
● Arna Bontemps / Harlem, the Beautiful Years
● Richard Wright / I Was in the South Where Neither Law nor Tradition Was on My Side
● Ralph Ellison / Son, You Really Can't Laugh About It
● J. Saunders Redding / It's All Complicated Up
● Langston Hughes / Go South, Young Man, Go South
III. THE CHALLENGE OF THE HOUR
● Eslanda Robeson / We Have Passed the Point of No Return
● Malcolm X / A Declaration of Independence
● William Strickland / Where Do We Go from Here
● Daniel H.Watts / The Sickness of America [from “Liberator magazine”]
● Addison Gayle, Jr / I Have Always Wanted Black Power
● Anon / The Time to Speak Out Is Now [an editorial from “The Crisis”]
● Martin Luther King, Jr. / Yes, We Shall Overcome
● Biographical Notes
● Index
I. THE DARK WINGS OF SLAVERY
● Henry Highland Garnet / Your Grievances Are Many
● Charles Lenox Remond / Every Slave Has the Right to Be Free
● Josephine Brown / We Had to Occupy a Seat Apart
● Frederick Douglass / Slavery Is the Disease and Its Abolition Is Essential
● Henry Guidon / Well, After Freedom . . .
● Frank A. Patterson / Sherman's Men
● Jourdon Anderson / To My Old Master
● Richard T. Greener / The Black Man Must Leave the South
II. TO SECURE THIS FREEDOM
● Booker T. Washington / The masses of Us Are to Live by the Production of Our Hands
● Kelly Miller / The People Did Not Choose Mr. Washington as a Leader
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Of Course We Will Not Accept One Jot or Tittle Less than Full Manhood Rights
● Marcus Garvey / The New Negro
● A. Philip Randolph / The Reasons for This State of Mind
● Arna Bontemps / Harlem, the Beautiful Years
● Richard Wright / I Was in the South Where Neither Law nor Tradition Was on My Side
● Ralph Ellison / Son, You Really Can't Laugh About It
● J. Saunders Redding / It's All Complicated Up
● Langston Hughes / Go South, Young Man, Go South
III. THE CHALLENGE OF THE HOUR
● Eslanda Robeson / We Have Passed the Point of No Return
● Malcolm X / A Declaration of Independence
● William Strickland / Where Do We Go from Here
● Daniel H.Watts / The Sickness of America [from “Liberator magazine”]
● Addison Gayle, Jr / I Have Always Wanted Black Power
● Anon / The Time to Speak Out Is Now [an editorial from “The Crisis”]
● Martin Luther King, Jr. / Yes, We Shall Overcome
● Biographical Notes
● Index
Reviews and notices of anthology
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Cited in
Kinnamon 1997: 478]
Item Number
A0154