Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 1

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University.  He earned his A.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University.  Jarrett is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism.  He is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Editorial Advisory Board Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton UniversityJoanna Brooks, San Diego State UniversityMargo Natalie Crawford, Cornell UniversityMadhu Dubey, University of Illinois, ChicagoMichele Elam, Stanford UniversityPhilip Gould, Brown UniversityGeorge B. Hutchinson, Cornell UniversityMarlon B. Ross, University of VirginiaCherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, MadisonJames Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts, AmherstWerner Sollors, Harvard UniversityJohn Stauffer, Harvard UniversityJeffrey Allen Tucker, University of RochesterIvy G. Wilson, Northwestern University

• Editorial Advisory Board xPreface xiIntroduction xviPrinciples of Selection and Editorial Procedures xixAcknowledgments xxiPart 1 The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, and Slavery: c.1746–1830 1Introduction 3Lucy Terry (c.1730–1821) 7Bars Fight (1746) 8Briton Hammon (dates unknown) 9Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (1760) 10Phillis Wheatley (c.1753–1784) 15From Poems on Various Subjects (1773) 17To Maecenas 17To the University of Cambridge, in New England 18On Being Brought from Africa to America 19On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769 20On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 21On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age 22On Recollection 23On Imagination 25To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State forNorth-America, &c. 26To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 27A Farewell to America to Mrs. S.W. 28Jupiter Hammon (1711–c.1806) 31An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, Who Came from Africa at Eight Years of Age, and Soon Became Acquainted with the Gospel of Jesus Christ (1778) 32John Marrant (1755–1791) 35A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (1785) 36Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797) 49Extracts from Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789, 1791) 51Chapter 1. The Author’s Account of His Country, Their Manners and Customs, &c. 51Chapter 2. The Author’s Birth and Parentage – His Being Kidnapped with His Sister – Horrors of a Slave Ship 60Chapter 3. The Author Is Carried to Virginia – Arrives in England – His Wonder at a Fall of Snow 69Chapter 4. A Particular Account of the Celebrated Engagement between Admiral Boscawen and Monsieur Le Clue 78Chapter 5. Various Interesting Instances of Oppression, Cruelty, and Extortion 89Chapter 10. Some Account of the Manner of the Author’s Conversion to the Faith of Jesus Christ 99Chapter 12. Different Transactions of the Author’s Life – Petition to the Queen – Conclusion 109David Walker (c.1785–1830) 119Extracts from Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (1829) 120Article 1. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery 120Article 2. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Ignorance 127Part 2 The Literatures of Slavery and Freedom: c.1830–1865 137Introduction 139Omar ibn Said (1770–1864) 143Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina (1831) 144Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) 147Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself. (1845) 149What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) 210William Wells Brown (1814–1884) 221 Narrative of William Wells Brown, an American Slave. Written by Himself. (1847, 1850) 223 The Escape; or, a Leap for Freedom: A Drama in Five Acts (1858) 263Martin Robison Delany (1812–1885) 299Extracts from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of theUnited States (1852) 300Chapter 1. Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered 300Chapter 2. Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States 301Chapter 3. American Colonization 308Chapter 4. Our Elevation in the United States 311Chapter 5. Means of Elevation 313Chapter 6. The United States Our Country 316Chapter 17. Emigration of the Colored People of the United States 317Chapter 23. A Glance at Ourselves – Conclusion 317Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1825–1900) 323Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) 324Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897) 365Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself. (1861) 367Part 3 The Literatures of Reconstruction, Racial Uplift, and the New Negro: c.1865–1920 491 Introduction 493Frank J. Webb (1828–1894) 497Two Wolves and a Lamb (1870) 498Marvin Hayle (1870) 524Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930) 548Peculiar Sam, or the Underground Railroad: A Musical Drama in Four Acts (1879) 550Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932) 565What Is a White Man? (1889) 567The Marrow of Tradition (1901) 573Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) 718From Sketches of Southern Life (1891) 720Aunt Chloe 720The Deliverance 722Aunt Chloe’s Politics 729Learning to Read 729Church Building 731The Reunion 731Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) 733Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964) 852Extract from A Voice from the South (1892) 853Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race 853Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) 867From Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896) 869The Poet and His Song 869Accountability 870Frederick Douglass 871A Prayer 872Passion and Love 873An Ante-Bellum Sermon 873Ode to Ethiopia 876Whittier 877A Banjo Song 877To Louise 879Alice 880After the Quarrel 880Beyond the Years 881The Spellin’-Bee 882A Negro Love Song 884The Colored Soldiers 885Nature and Art 887When De Co’n Pone’s Hot 888The Deserted Plantation 889We Wear the Mask 890Phyllis 891When Malindy Sings 891Extract from The Heart of Happy Hollow (1904) 893The Lynching of Jube Benson 893Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) 899Extract from Up from Slavery (1901) 901Chapter 14. The Atlanta Exposition Address 901William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) 909The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 912James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) 1026The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912, 1927) 1028Glossary 1102Timeline 1110Name Index 1121Subject Index 1126

"The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium." ( Native American Encyclopedia , 6 February 2014)