Bibliograph

Early African-American classics, edited and with an introduction by Anthony Appiah

Type

Label

Early African-American classics, edited and with an introduction by Anthony Appiah

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxiv)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Early African-American classics

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

21314270

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introduction by Anthony Appiah

Series statement

A Bantam Classic

Summary

A collection of autobiographical literature by some of America's most influential black writers includes pieces by Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs

Table Of Contents

Prologue, a selection from The souls of Black folk / by W.E.B. Du Bois -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / by Frederick Douglass -- Selections from Incidents in the life of a slave girl / by Harriet A. Jacobs -- Selections from Up from slavery / by Booker T. Washington -- Selections from the autobiography of an ex-coloured man / by James Weldon Johnson

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