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In this bestselling companion to her pioneering study, Invisible Poets, Joan Sherman continues to make new generations aware of the "invisible" legacy of nineteenth-century black American poetry. The 171 poems here, by thirty-five men and women, have been transcribedfrom first editions and are annotated in detail.
Introduction 1A Note to the Reader 15George Moses Horton 17Noah Calwell Cannon 38Charles Lewis Reason 41Ann Plato 50Joshua McCarter Simpson 54James Monroe Whitfield 71Daniel Alexander Payne 94Alfred Gibbs Campbell 102Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 112Joseph Cephas Holly 146George Boyer Vashon 153Elymas Payson Rogers 166Adah Isaacs Menken 182James Madison Bell 192Charlotte L. Forten Grimke 211Alfred Islay Walden 221Albery Allson Whitman 236Henrietta Cordelia Ray 265John Willis Menard 282Robert Charles O'Hara Benjamin 288Timothy Thomas Fortune 293James Edwin Campbell 306Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. 325George Clinton Rowe 342Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard 360Daniel Webster Davis 365Edward W. Williams 382Paul Laurence Dunbar 386George Marion McClellan 416Eloise Alberta Veronica Bibb 434Mary Weston Fordham 441Frank Barbour Coffin 447James Ephriam McGirt 456Samuel Alfred Beadle 464Priscilla Jane Thompson 472Bibliography 484Subject Index 500Title and Poet Index 504
"Ever since Invisible Poets we have needed an informed and comprehensive anthology of African-American poetry in the nineteenth century. Now we have it. No one but Sherman could have done the job so well."--William L. Andrews, author of To Tell a Free Story