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A history of Afro-American literature, Blyden Jackson

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A history of Afro-American literature, Blyden Jackson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (volume1, pages 401-450) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A history of Afro-American literature

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bibliography

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18560291

Responsibility statement

Blyden Jackson

Table Of Contents

volume 1. The long beginning, 1746-1895. The age of apprenticeship. The first poets -- The first writers of prose -- More early writers of prose -- George Moses Horton and David Walker -- The age of the abolitionists I. Frederick Douglass, plus the early Black Press -- Slave narratives, 1830-1860 -- Perpetuations and close relatives of the slave narrative -- Antebellum black leaders -- Early black historians -- The age of the abolitionists, II. Early abolitionist poets -- Later abolitionist poets -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Albery Allison Whitman -- Early folk literature, largely prose -- Early folk literature in verse -- The first negro novelist -- Frank J. Webb and Harriet E. Wilson -- Black separatism enters the novel -- A beginning ends

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