The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An AnthologyWilliam L. Andrews The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connection to one another: they all hailed from the state of North Carolina. This collection of poetry, fiction, autobiography, and essays showcases some of the best work of eight influential African American writers from North Carolina during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his introduction, William L. Andrews explores the reasons why black North Carolinians made such a disproportionate contribution (in quantity and lasting quality) to African American literature as compared to that of other southern states with larger African American populations. The authors in this anthology parlayed both the advantages and disadvantages of their North Carolina beginnings into sophisticated perspectives on the best and the worst of which humanity, in both the South and the North, was capable. They created an African American literary tradition unrivaled by that of any other state in the South. Writers included here are Charles W. Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, David Bryant Fulton, George Moses Horton, Harriet Jacobs, Lunsford Lane, Moses Roper, and David Walker. |
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... knew the real limitations that his color placed on his supposed freedom. He was never dependent on a particular white man for his basic necessities, or for those privileges—such as the right to read the Bible, or go to town on weekends ...
... knew the real limitations that his color placed on his supposed freedom. He was never dependent on a particular white man for his basic necessities, or for those privileges—such as the right to read the Bible, or go to town on weekends ...
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... knew, as the historian John Hope Franklin has concluded, that the state's apparent “liberalism” did not stem from “any humanitarianism peculiar to the State” but was attributable, more than likely, to socioeconomic factors, such as “the ...
... knew, as the historian John Hope Franklin has concluded, that the state's apparent “liberalism” did not stem from “any humanitarianism peculiar to the State” but was attributable, more than likely, to socioeconomic factors, such as “the ...
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... knew what a slave looked like. Even more confounding and distressing to slaveholding men and women in the South was the actual physical presence of a white Negro such as Roper, whose color, instead of registering a prescribed caste ...
... knew what a slave looked like. Even more confounding and distressing to slaveholding men and women in the South was the actual physical presence of a white Negro such as Roper, whose color, instead of registering a prescribed caste ...
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Contents
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Statement of Editorial Practice | 41 |
GEORGE MOSES HORTON | 43 |
DAVID WALKER | 69 |
MOSES ROPER | 89 |
LUNSFORD LANE | 139 |
HARRIET JACOBS | 171 |
CHARLES W CHESNUTT | 217 |
ANNA JULIA COOPER | 263 |
DAVID BRYANT FULTON | 289 |
Timeline | 311 |
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