African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Slavery

Contents of this tag:

  1. Albery A. Whitman, "Not a Man, Yet a Man" (full text) (1877)
  2. Langston Hughes, "Proem" ["The Negro"] (1922)
  3. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "A Sonnet in Memory of John Brown" (1922)
  4. Frances E.W. Harper, "Bury Me in a Free Land' (1858)
  5. Chapter 1b: Revisiting American History via Poetry, 1890-1899
  6. Jessie Fauset, "Oriflamme" (1920)
  7. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Easter-Emancipation 1863-1913"/ "Children of the Moon" (1913)
  8. James Weldon Johnson, "Fifty Years" (1913)
  9. Langston Hughes, "Aunt Sue's Stories" (1921)
  10. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Colored Soldiers" (1895)
  11. Frances E.W. Harper, "Poems" (Full Text) (1896)
  12. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Unchained 1863" (1914)
  13. Frances E.W. Harper, "Eliza Harris" (1853/1854)
  14. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Lincoln" (1922)
  15. Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895)
  16. James Weldon Johnson, "Brothers" (1916)
  17. Fenton Johnson, "Ethiopia" (1915)
  18. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Majors and Minors" (Full Text) (1895)
  19. Three Sonnets by Carrie Williams Clifford (1922)
  20. Maurice N. Corbett, "Frederick Douglass" (1914)
  21. Eloise A. Bibb, "Eliza In Uncle Tom's Cabin)" (1895)
  22. Maurice N. Corbett, "Negro Labor Changed Dixie" (1914)
  23. Charles Frederick White, "In Honor Of Lincoln" (1896/ 1908)
  24. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "The Freedom of the Free" (1913)
  25. L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)
  26. Maurice N. Corbett, "Negroes Contrabands of War" (1914)
  27. Edna Porter, "That Yaller Gal (La. 1924)" (1925)
  28. Claude McKay, "Enslaved" (1921)
  29. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Honor's Appeal to Justice" (1899)
  30. Mary Ashe Lee, "Afmerica" (1886 version)
  31. James Madison Bell, "The Triumph of Liberty" (1870)
  32. H. Cordelia Ray, "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1910)
  33. E.L. Blackshear, "Africa--A Medley" (1904)
  34. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Lines to Garrison" (1911)
  35. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio" (1857)
  36. Charles Bertram Johnson, "An Old Ex-Slave" (1921)
  37. Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "Crispus Attucks" (1899)
  38. Countee Cullen, "Three Hundred Years Ago" (1925)
  39. Frederick Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896)
  40. Katherine D. Tillman, "Clotelle--A Tale of Florida" (1902)
  41. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "The Dying Bondman" (1895)
  42. Carrie Williams Clifford, "America" (1911)
  43. Anonymous, "A Remarkable Epitaph" (1907)
  44. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown 1619-1919" (1922)
  45. Raymond Garfield Dandridge, "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1920)
  46. Frances E.W. Harper, Poems in "Anthology of Verse by American Negroes" (1924)
  47. Katherine D. Tillman, "America's First Cargo of Slaves" (1902)
  48. T. Thomas Fortune, "The Bird Has Vanished" (1905)
  49. T. Thomas Fortune, "Nat Turner" (1884)
  50. Frances E.W. Harper, "Fifteenth Amendment" (1871)
  51. Hilary Teague, "Poem" (1903)
  52. Charles Frederick White, "A Historical Review" (1899/1908)
  53. Roy Reginald, "Rastus' Soliloquy" (1909)
  54. Henry McNeal Turner, "The Conflict for Civil Rights: A Poem" (1881)
  55. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Present Age" (1896)
  56. Lucian B. Watkins, "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1907)
  57. Arna Bontemps, "Old Mansion" (1927)
  58. James D. Corrothers, "Juny at the Gate" (1902)
  59. Poems by James Weldon Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  60. Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Schomburg), "The Fight for Liberty in St. Lucia" (1911)
  61. J.E. McCall, "When Sampson Sings" (1928)
  62. David C. Lee, "Dem Tales Wot Gran-pa Tells" (1902)
  63. Langston Hughes, "America" (1925)
  64. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Mother" (1854)
  65. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "Four Million Strong" (1921)
  66. Priscilla Jane Thompson, "Freedom at McNealy's" (1900)
  67. Augustus M. Hodges, "The Christmas Reunion" (1900)
  68. Harriette Shadow Butcher, "The Memory of Colonel Charles Denton Young" (1925)
  69. Poems by Jessie Fauset in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  70. Katherine D. Tillman, "Our Cause" (1902)
  71. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "In Respect to Marcus Garvey" (1921)
  72. Fenton Johnson, "The Creed of the Slave" (1915
  73. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Auction" (1854)
  74. Henry Davis Middleton, "The Door" (1904)
  75. Katherine D. Tillman, "A Hymn of Praise" (1902)
  76. Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)
  77. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Song" (1925)
  78. Sarah Louisa Forten, "The Grave of the Slave" (1831)
  79. George Reginald Margetson, "Abraham Lincoln" (1928)
  80. Claude McKay, "A Daughter of the American Revolution to Her Son" (1926)
  81. Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, "Pictures" (1920)
  82. Aaron Belford Thompson, "Emancipation" (1899)
  83. Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)
  84. Fenton Johnson, "The Soul of Boston" (1915)
  85. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Fugitive's Wife" (1854)
  86. Fenton Johnson, "Songs of the Soil" (1916) (Full text)
  87. Fenton Johnson, "Douglass" (1915)
  88. Frank B. Coffin, "Only" (1897)
  89. Aaron Belford Thompson, "The Chain of Bondage" (1899)
  90. Fenton Johnson, "Slave Death Song" (1915)
  91. Jean Toomer, "Song of the Son" (1922)
  92. H. Cordelia Ray, "In Memoriam (Frederick Douglass)" (1910)
  93. Clara Ann Thompson, "What Means This Bleating of Sheep?" (1921)
  94. Frank B. Coffin, "Lincoln's Call" (1897)
  95. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Passing of the Ex-Slave" (1918)
  96. John Riley Dungee, "Unwritten History" (1901)
  97. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)
  98. James Weldon Johnson, "Let My People Go" (1927)
  99. T. Thomas Fortune, "Sadie Fontaine" (1905)
  100. Katherine D. Tillman, "Uncle Ned's Story" (1902)
  101. Josephine Heard "Welcome to Hon. Frederick Douglass" (1888)
  102. Frank B. Coffin, "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Works (Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1897)
  103. Kelsey Percival Kitchel, "Slave's Song" (1916)
  104. James D. Corrothers, "The Snapping of the Bow" (1901)
  105. Walter Everette Hawkins, "The Black Soldiers" (1909)
  106. Katherine D. Tillman, "Seeking the Lost" (1902)
  107. Rosalie Jonas, "The Octoroon Ball" (1911)
  108. James Weldon Johnson, "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1917)