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Early Black American Literature: A Broadview Anthology of American Literature Themed Custom Text

Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for literature courses focused on Black Literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a custom text that suits your course needs.

Please note: This list is meant to provide options for instructors assembling custom texts, and it is not intended to be used in its entirety. Selections from other Broadview books can also be added to your custom text. This includes material from other Broadview anthologies, as well as selections from any of our more than 400 stand-alone editions, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano to Clotel. You can add selections from these other books by navigating through the titles listed under the “Books” tab at top. If the selection or book you wish to add is not listed there (or if you’d rather work directly with a person to assemble your custom text), please contact our Custom Text Coordinator at custom@broadviewpress.com.

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    Slavery and America: Beginnings to 1820
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    James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince
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    Lucy Terry, Bars Fight
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    In Context: Josiah Holland's Account of the Bars Fight
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    John Marrant, A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black
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    Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa
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    Contexts: Slavery and Resistance
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    Contexts: Slavery and Resistance [web readings]
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    Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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    Absalom Jones, The Petition of the People of Colour
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    Absalom Jones, from A Thanksgiving Sermon [web readings]
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    Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, from A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia [web readings]
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    Richard Allen, from Confession of John Joyce, Alias Davis, Who Was Executed on Monday, the 14th of March, 1808
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    Declaration of the Independence of the Blacks of St. Domingo from Haitian Declaration of Independence [web readings]
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    Briton Hammon, A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man
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    Phillis Wheatley, various [web readings]
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    Phillis Wheatley, On the Death of General Wooster [web readings]
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    Lemuel Haynes, from Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-Keeping
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    Lemuel Haynes, Universal Salvation: A Very Ancient Doctrine [web readings]
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    David George, An Account of the Life of David George [web readings]
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    George Moses Horton, selected poems
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    George Moses Horton, Like Brothers We Meet; Weep; Lincoln Is Dead [web readings]
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    Solomon Northup, from Twelve Years a Slave [web readings]
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    Nineteenth-Century Oratory
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    Nineteenth-Century Oratory [web readings]
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    David Walker, from Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles
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    Contexts: Slavery and Abolition
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    Contexts: Slavery and Abolition [web readings]
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    Sojourner Truth, from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave and Speech at the Akron
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    African American Oral Literature
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    James Monroe Whitfield, America; Yes! Strike Again That Sounding String; The North Star
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    James Monroe Whitfield, Self-Reliance; The Misanthropist; from J.M. Whitfield in Reply to F. Douglass [web readings]
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    Martin R. Delany, Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent
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    Martin R. Delany, from Blake; or, the Huts of America [web reading]
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    Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
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    William Wells Brown, from The Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown
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    William Wells Brown, from Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter
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    Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself; from “To My Old Master";
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    Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave [web reading]
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    Frederick Douglass, from My Bondage and Freedom [web reading]
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    Frederick Douglass, from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass [web reading]
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    Contexts: The Civil War and Its Literature
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    Contexts: The Civil War and Its Literature [web reading]
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    Harriet Wilson, from Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North
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    William and Ellen Craft, from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom [web reading]
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    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, The Slave Mother; Bible Defense of Slavery; Eliza Harris Ethiopia, & others
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    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, A Dialogue [web reading]
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    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Aunt Chloe [web reading]
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