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AAS 326: Topics in African American Culture & LIfe: Early African American Literature

Librarian for History and African American Studies

Steven Knowlton

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Early editions in Princeton University Library

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral by Phillis Wheatley
Publication Date: 1773
The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself
Publication Date: 1789
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself
Publication Date: 1845
Autographs for Freedom by Julia Griffiths, editor
Publication Date: 1854
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free Black : in a two-story white house, North, showing that slavery's shadows fall even there by "Our Nig" [Harriet E. Wilson]
Publication Date: 1859
Anglo-American Magazine by Thomas Hamilton, editor
Publication Date: 1859
Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a bonds-woman of olden time ; with a history of her labors and correspondence drawn from her "Book of life" by Olive Gilbert
Publication Date: 1878
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
Publication Date: 1901
When Malindy sings by Paul Laurence Dunbar; illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club; decorations by Margaret Armstrong
Publication Date: 1903