Early African-American classics
By: edited and with an introduction by Anthony Appiah.
Contributors: Appiah, Anthony.
Series: A Bantam classic
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
Subjects: African Americans -- History.; African Americans -- Biography.; Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxiv)
Table of contents: title: Prologue, a selection from The souls of Black folk / by W.E.B. Du Bois; title: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / by Frederick Douglass; title: Selections from Incidents in the life of a slave girl / by Harriet A. Jacobs; title: Selections from Up from slavery / by Booker T. Washington; title: Selections from the autobiography of an ex-coloured man / by James Weldon Johnson.