Selected African American writing from 1760 to 1910
By: edited by Arthur P. Davis, J. Saunders Redding, Joyce Ann Joyce
Edition: Bantam classic ed.
Series: Bantam classic
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780553214352
Other titles: New cavalcade.
Notes: Abridged version of: The New cavalcade. Howard University Press, 1991-1992.
Table of contents: title: To the University of Cambridge, in New-England ; On being brought from Africa to America ; On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 ; An hymn to the morning ; An hymn to the evening ; On imagination ; To his excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley; title: An address to Miss Phillis Wheatly ; An address to the negroes of the state of New York / Jupiter Hammon; title: From Equiano's travels / Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano); title: An acrostic for Julia Shepard ; The creditor to his proud debtor ; George Moses Horton, myself ; On liberty and slavery ; To Eliza ; Jefferson in a tight place:  the fox is caught ; The slave ; Slavery ; Snaps for dinner, snaps for breakfast and snaps for supper ; Letter to Mr. Horace Greeley / George Moses Horton.; title: From Clotelle ; From My southern home / William Wells Brown; title: My father's death ; Varieties / Harriet E. Wilson; title: Hopes consummated / Frank J. Webb; title: America ; How long? ; The north star / James Monroe Whitfield; title: From The life and times of Frederick Douglass ; The fourth of July / Frederick Douglass; title: The struggle for an education ; An address delivered at the opening of the Cotton States' Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, September, 1895 ; Address delivered at the Harvard Alumni dinner in 1896 / Booker T. Washington; title: The slave auction ; The dying bondman ; Bury me in a free land ; A double standard ; Learning to read / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.; title: Bro'r Adr'm Jimson's wedding: a Christmas story / Pauline E. Hopkins; title: The Goophered grapevine ; The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chesnutt; title: An ante-bellum sermon ; Ode to Ethiopia ; When de co'n pone's hot ; Signs of the times ; We wear the mask ; Chrismus on the plantation ; Anner 'Lizer's stumblin' block / Paul Laurence Dunbar.