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The Love of Landry

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


The Love of Landry is one of Dunbar's four novels, and one of three that are about white people. In this case, the story is about the recupe…

The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

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Alice Dunbar Nelson


Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…

True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life

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Sarah Farro


The author is aware that she is entering a field which has been diligently cultivated by the best minds in Europe and America. Her design in…

The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races

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Oscar Micheaux


This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …

Walker's Appeal

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David Walker


The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

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Alice Dunbar Nelson


These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…

Fact Stranger than Fiction

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John Patterson Green


I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…

Historical Romance of the American Negro

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Charles H. Fowler


It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …

Prejudices, Second Series

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H. L. Mencken


Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…

Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics

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Archibald Grimké


In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …

The Heart of Happy Hollow

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …

Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism

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John Middleton Murry


Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

For Your Sweet Sake

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James Ephraim Mcgirt


This work is a collection of lyric poems - Summary by Jim Locke

Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

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Isabel Eaton


This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…

Chapter 81 - The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality - part 15

In The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II)

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Tobias Smollett


Volume II continues the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle. The novel is written as a series of…

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