A history of Afro-American literature

volume 1. The long beginning, 1746-1895. The age of apprenticeship. The first poets

The first writers of prose

More early writers of prose

George Moses Horton and David Walker

The age of the abolitionists I. Frederick Douglass, plus the early Black Press

Slave narratives, 1830-1860

Perpetuations and close relatives of the slave narrative

Antebellum black leaders

Early black historians

The age of the abolitionists, II. Early abolitionist poets

Later abolitionist poets

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Albery Allison Whitman

Early folk literature, largely prose

Early folk literature in verse

The first negro novelist

Frank J. Webb and Harriet E. Wilson

Black separatism enters the novel

A beginning ends.