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African American Writing, 1773-1910

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Early Black Press

Early Black Press

Beginnings

Uplift and Political Action

Making a Black Magazine

The Afro-American Press and Its Editors

Early Black Press
Poetry
1. Creating a Poetic Tradition
2. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Life Writing
Fiction
Colored Conventions Movement
Addresses and Orations
William Wells Brown
Underground Rail Road
Frederick Douglass
1. The Autobiographies
2. Orator and Public Intellectual
Black Reconstruction
William C. Nell

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