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"Toussaint L'Ouverture," Wendell Phillips

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"Abraham Lincoln," Frederick Douglass

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"Fort Wagner," Anna E. Dickinson

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"The Boys of Howard School," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.

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"The Mulatto to His Critics," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr

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"Negro Music," Emmett J. Scott

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"Crispus Attucks," George L. Ruffin

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"Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863," Abraham Lincoln

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"To the Negro Farmers of the United States," Alice Dunbar-Nelson

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"Toussaint L'Ouverture," William Wordsworth

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"Toussaint L'Ouverture," John G. Whittier

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"Chalmette, Memorial Day," Alice Ruth Moore

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"His Excellency, George Washington, 1775," Phyllis Wheatley

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"Abraham Lincoln," David B. Fulton (Jack Thorne)

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"Charles Sumner," Charlotte Forten Grimke

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"Crispus Attucks," Rev. George C. Rowe

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"Nat Turner," T. Thomas Fortune

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"Emancipation," D. Webster Davis

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"Fifty Years," James Weldon Johnson

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"Booker T. Washington," John Riley Dungee

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"Booker T. Washington," Theodore Roosevelt

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"In Flanders Fields--an Echo," Orlando C. W. Taylor

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"I Sit and Sew," Alice Dunbar-Nelson

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"The Lynchers," Madison Cawein

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"Ku Klux," Madison Cawein

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"The Second Louisiana May 27,1863," George H. Boker

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"To Canaan," Oliver Wendall Holmes

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"The Hero of Fort Wagner," Phoebe Cary

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"Bury Them--Wagner, July 18, 1863," Henry Howard Brownell

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"Whether White or Black, A Man," Edith Smith Davis

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Ethiopian Maid," Walter Everette Hawkins

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"Mat," D. Webster Davis

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"Belgium," Lester B. Granger

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"Laus Deo," John Greenleaf Whittier

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"O Black and Unknown Bards," James Weldon Johnson

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"The Young Warrior," E. Stoutenburg

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"Mine Eyes Have Seen," Alice Dunbar-Nelson

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"Winter Morning," Alexander Poushkin

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"Winter Evening," Alexander Poushkin

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"Friendship," Alexander Poushkin

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"The Bard," Alexander Poushkin

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"Frederick Douglass," Charles H. Chipman

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"A Negro's Rebuke," Rosco Conkling Simmons

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"Ask Our Constitutional Rights Now," Clayton Powell

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"The Fourth of July," Frederick Douglass

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"Lincoln and Douglass," Alice Dunbar-Nelson

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"The Better Part," Booker T. Washington

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"After Emancipation--Suffrage," Thaddeus Stevens

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"Memorial Day in the South," "Jack Thorne" (David B. Fulton)

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"The Unsung Heroes," Paul Laurence Dunbar

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"Black Samson of Brandywine," Paul Laurence Dunbar

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"The Haunted Oak," Paul Laurence Dunbar

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"Ode to Ethiopia," Paul Laurence Dunbar

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from "The Finish of Patsy Barnes," Paul Laurence Dunbar

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"Prophecy," Reverdy C. Ransom

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"Hear, O Church," E.A. Long

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"Dessalines," William Edgar Easton

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"The Sisters," Charles W. Chesnutt

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"Modern Christmas on the Plantation," William E. Burghardt DuBois

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"The Farewell," John G. Whittier

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"How He Saved St. Michael's," Mary Anna Phinny Stansbury

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"The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star," John Pierpont

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"Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," Walt Whitman

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"The African Chief," William Cullen Bryant

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"The Black Man's Burden," John White Chadwick

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"The Lights at Carney's Point," Alice Dunbar-Nelson

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"It's Me O Lord," Alma and Paul Ellerbe

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"How France Received the Negro Soldiers," Emmett J. Scott

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"How Jim Europe and His Jazz Outfit Broke into the War," Charles Welton

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"The Stevedores," Ellen Wheeler Wilcox

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"Shall I Say, 'My Son You Are Branded'," Georgia Douglas Johnson

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"The Seedling," Paul Laurence Dunbar

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"While April Breezes Blow," D.T. Williamson

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"Thanksgiving," William Stanley Braithwaite

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"The Cucuya or Firefly," a Cuban slave

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"The Clock that Gains," the Cuban slave

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"A June Song," Charlotte Forten Grimke

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"A City Garden," William Stanley Braithwaite

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"De 'Lil Black Sheep," Ballarat (Australia) Chronicle

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"In the Morning," Paul Laurence Dunbar

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"Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine," Paul Laurence Dunbar

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"The Case of Ca'line," Paul Laurence Dunbar

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"Sambo's Right to Be Kilt," Private Miles O'Reilly

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"An Easter Symbol," Ruth McEnery Stuart

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"The Funal of Bruh Tony Smiff," John Riley Dungee

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"Tunk," James Weldon Johnnson

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"Uncle Ike's Roosters," Anonymous

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"W'en Dey 'Listed the Colored Soldiers," Paul Lawrence Dunbar

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"The Praline Woman," Alice Ruth Moore

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"Mammy Clarissa's Vengeance," Payne Erskine

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"The Four Travelers," Will Carlton

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"The Band of Gideon," Joseph Cotter, Jr.

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"The White Witch," James Weldon Johnson

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Forward and Introduction

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"The Birdlet," Alexander Poushkin

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"The Sparrow's Fall," Frances E. W. Harper