Slavery
Contents of this tag:
- Albery A. Whitman, "Not a Man, Yet a Man" (full text) (1877)
- Langston Hughes, "Proem" ["The Negro"] (1922)
- Georgia Douglas Johnson, "A Sonnet in Memory of John Brown" (1922)
- Frances E.W. Harper, "Bury Me in a Free Land' (1858)
- Chapter 1b: Revisiting American History via Poetry, 1890-1899
- Jessie Fauset, "Oriflamme" (1920)
- W.E.B. Du Bois, "Easter-Emancipation 1863-1913"/ "Children of the Moon" (1913)
- James Weldon Johnson, "Fifty Years" (1913)
- Frances E.W. Harper, "Poems" (Full Text) (1896)
- Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Unchained 1863" (1914)
- Frances E.W. Harper, "Eliza Harris" (1853/1854)
- Carrie Williams Clifford, "Lincoln" (1922)
- Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895)
- James Weldon Johnson, "Brothers" (1916)
- Fenton Johnson, "Ethiopia" (1915)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Majors and Minors" (Full Text) (1895)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Colored Soldiers" (1895)
- Langston Hughes, "Aunt Sue's Stories" (1921)
- Maurice N. Corbett, "Negro Labor Changed Dixie" (1914)
- Charles Frederick White, "In Honor Of Lincoln" (1896/ 1908)
- Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "The Freedom of the Free" (1913)
- L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)
- Edna Porter, "That Yaller Gal (La. 1924)" (1925)
- Maurice N. Corbett, "Negroes Contrabands of War" (1914)
- Claude McKay, "Enslaved" (1921)
- Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Honor's Appeal to Justice" (1899)
- Mary Ashe Lee, "Afmerica" (1886 version)
- James Madison Bell, "The Triumph of Liberty" (1870)
- H. Cordelia Ray, "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1910)
- E.L. Blackshear, "Africa--A Medley" (1904)
- Carrie Williams Clifford, "Lines to Garrison" (1911)
- Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio" (1857)
- Charles Bertram Johnson, "An Old Ex-Slave" (1921)
- Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "Crispus Attucks" (1899)
- Countee Cullen, "Three Hundred Years Ago" (1925)
- Frederick Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896)
- Katherine D. Tillman, "Clotelle--A Tale of Florida" (1902)
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "The Dying Bondman" (1895)
- Carrie Williams Clifford, "America" (1911)
- Anonymous, "A Remarkable Epitaph" (1907)
- Carrie Williams Clifford, "Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown 1619-1919" (1922)
- Three Sonnets by Carrie Williams Clifford (1922)
- Maurice N. Corbett, "Frederick Douglass" (1914)
- Eloise A. Bibb, "Eliza In Uncle Tom's Cabin)" (1895)
- Charles Frederick White, "A Historical Review" (1899/1908)
- Roy Reginald, "Rastus' Soliloquy" (1909)
- Henry McNeal Turner, "The Conflict for Civil Rights: A Poem" (1881)
- Frances E.W. Harper, "The Present Age" (1896)
- Lucian B. Watkins, "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1907)
- Arna Bontemps, "Old Mansion" (1927)
- James D. Corrothers, "Juny at the Gate" (1902)
- Poems by James Weldon Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
- Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Schomburg), "The Fight for Liberty in St. Lucia" (1911)
- J.E. McCall, "When Sampson Sings" (1928)
- David C. Lee, "Dem Tales Wot Gran-pa Tells" (1902)
- Langston Hughes, "America" (1925)
- Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Mother" (1854)
- Ethel Trew Dunlap, "Four Million Strong" (1921)
- Priscilla Jane Thompson, "Freedom at McNealy's" (1900)
- Augustus M. Hodges, "The Christmas Reunion" (1900)
- Harriette Shadow Butcher, "The Memory of Colonel Charles Denton Young" (1925)
- Poems by Jessie Fauset in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
- Katherine D. Tillman, "Our Cause" (1902)
- Ethel Trew Dunlap, "In Respect to Marcus Garvey" (1921)
- Henry Davis Middleton, "The Door" (1904)
- Fenton Johnson, "The Creed of the Slave" (1915
- Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Auction" (1854)
- Katherine D. Tillman, "A Hymn of Praise" (1902)
- Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Song" (1925)
- Sarah Louisa Forten, "The Grave of the Slave" (1831)
- Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, "Pictures" (1920)
- George Reginald Margetson, "Abraham Lincoln" (1928)
- Claude McKay, "A Daughter of the American Revolution to Her Son" (1926)
- Fenton Johnson, "Songs of the Soil" (1916) (Full text)
- Aaron Belford Thompson, "Emancipation" (1899)
- Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)
- Fenton Johnson, "The Soul of Boston" (1915)
- Frances E.W. Harper, "The Fugitive's Wife" (1854)
- Fenton Johnson, "Douglass" (1915)
- Frank B. Coffin, "Only" (1897)
- Jean Toomer, "Song of the Son" (1922)
- Aaron Belford Thompson, "The Chain of Bondage" (1899)
- Fenton Johnson, "Slave Death Song" (1915)
- H. Cordelia Ray, "In Memoriam (Frederick Douglass)" (1910)
- Clara Ann Thompson, "What Means This Bleating of Sheep?" (1921)
- Frank B. Coffin, "Lincoln's Call" (1897)
- Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Passing of the Ex-Slave" (1918)
- John Riley Dungee, "Unwritten History" (1901)
- W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)
- James Weldon Johnson, "Let My People Go" (1927)
- T. Thomas Fortune, "Sadie Fontaine" (1905)
- Katherine D. Tillman, "Uncle Ned's Story" (1902)
- Josephine Heard "Welcome to Hon. Frederick Douglass" (1888)
- Frank B. Coffin, "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Works (Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1897)
- Kelsey Percival Kitchel, "Slave's Song" (1916)
- James D. Corrothers, "The Snapping of the Bow" (1901)
- Walter Everette Hawkins, "The Black Soldiers" (1909)
- Katherine D. Tillman, "Seeking the Lost" (1902)
- Rosalie Jonas, "The Octoroon Ball" (1911)
- James Weldon Johnson, "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1917)
- Raymond Garfield Dandridge, "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1920)
- Frances E.W. Harper, Poems in "Anthology of Verse by American Negroes" (1924)
- Katherine D. Tillman, "America's First Cargo of Slaves" (1902)
- T. Thomas Fortune, "The Bird Has Vanished" (1905)
- T. Thomas Fortune, "Nat Turner" (1884)
- Frances E.W. Harper, "Fifteenth Amendment" (1871)
- Hilary Teague, "Poem" (1903)