Race & Freedom

The literature of slavery, emancipation, and the long struggle for equality — Douglass, Du Bois, Washington, and the voices of conscience.

The American reckoning

In this collection

• The Hymn my Mother Taught me.
• Against Death
• The Marching Faith
• A Boy and his Girl
• A Memory of 'the System'
• Heaven
• How it Feels to be Colored Me
• The Two Poets
• Seats of the Haughty
• The Cry of the Unfit
• Two Recalls
• You Carry the World on Your Shoulders
• A Universal Favorite
• The Outcasts
• Travelogue
• The Milliner
• The Tides
• Book Agent Story
• The Hoe Cake of Appomattox
• From Wales – Green Mountain, Black Mountain
• The Tragedy of a Snob
• The Sadder Century
• The Panorama
• Louisa Pallant
• A Gathering of Old Men
• Contending Forces
• A but'Ful Guv'Ment Mule
• Blowing up of Fort Hill
• The Clock at Vicksburg
• The First Soldiers Wounded in the Civil War
• The Sequel to "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

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