African American Classics: A literature forged against the odds

The foundational works of Black American letters — Douglass and Du Bois, Dunbar and Hughes, Harper and Washington.

In this collection

• Died of Starvation
• The Naughty Child
• Poem to F. S
• Simon's Feast
• A Mother's Heroism
• A Story of the Rebellion
• Young Prostitute
• The Lost Bells
• To the Union Savers of Cleveland
• Saturday Night
• Young Bridge
• Poem for Youth
• Grant Park
• Song for a Suicide
• Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover
• The Building
• Joy
• Vashti
• The Prodigal's Return
• Moses: a Story of the Nile
• After Many Springs
• Listen here Blues
• The Uncalled
• The Sin of Achan
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