The Negro caravan : writings by American Negroes /
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New York :
Dryden Press,
[1941]
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Table of Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- The short story
- The heroic slave / Frederick Douglasss
- The sheriff's children / Charles W. Chesnutt
- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
- Avey / Jean Toomer
- Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher
- Fog / John F. Matheus
- The Flyer / Cecil Blue
- From black warriors / George Schuyler
- Slave on the block / Langston Hughes
- The making of mamma Harris / Ted Poston
- The night's for cryin' / Chester Himes
- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright
- The novel
- speculating in slaves / William Wells Brown
- Quadroon; Octoroon / William Wells Brown
- Conspiracy / Martin R. Delany
- The storm breaks / Charles W. Chestnutt
- Camp meeting / James Weldon Johnson
- The porter debates the senator / J.A. Rogers
- A negro doctor in the south / Walter White
- Color-struck / Jessie Fauset
- The treeing of the chef / Claude McKay
- Shine and Sheba / Rudolph Fisher
- Miss cramp and the function / Rudolph Fisher
- A world-shaking discovery / George Schuyler
- Niggeratti manor / Wallace Thurman
- Guitar / Langston Hughes
- Dance / George W. Henderson
- Sharecropping / George E. Lee
- Hurricane / Zora Neale Hurston
- Conspirator / Arna Bontemps
- The trail / Arna Bontemps
- Oystering / Arna Bontemps
- Steel mill rhythm / William Attaway
- Poetry
- To the Eael of Dartmouth / Phillis Wheatley
- His Excellency general Washington / Phillis Wheatley
- Liberty and peace / Phillis Wheatley
- To George Moses Horton, myself / George Moses Horton
- On liberty and slavery / George Moses Horton
- To Eliza / George Moses Horton
- America / James M. Whitfield
- Eliza Harris / Frances E.W. Harper
- The slave auction / Frances E.W. Harper
- Bury me in a free land / Frances E.W. Harper
- Let the light enter / Frances E.W. Harper
- From Twasinta's Seminoles; or rape of florida / Alvery A. Whitman
- Ere sleep comes down / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The party / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- At candle-lighting time / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Forever / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Robert Bould Shaw
- Harriet Beecher Stowe / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- A song / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The debt / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Signs of the times / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- A christmas folk song / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Itching Heels / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- A death song / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Ol' doc' Hyar / James Edwin Campbell
- When ol' sis Judy pray / James Edwin Campbell
- The watchers / W.S. Braithwaite
- Sandy Star / W.S. Braithwaite
- A litany at Atlanta / W.E.B. DuBois
- O black and unknown bards / James Weldon Johnson
- Brothers / James Weldon Johnson
- Sence you went away / James Weldon Johnson
- The prodigal son / James Weldon Johnson
- Go down death / James Weldon Johnson
- St. Peter relates an incident / James Weldon Johnson
- So quietly / Leslie Pinckney Hill
- Tuskegee / Leslie Pinckney Hill
- The heart of a woman / Georgia Douglass
- The suppliant / Johnson
- I closed my shutters fast last night / Johnson
- I want to die while you love me / Johnson
- Hushed by the hands of sleep / Angelina W. Grimike
- Surrender / Angelina W. Grimke
- When the green lies over the earth / Angelina W. Grimke
- A winter twilight / Angelina W. Grimke
- The tragedy of Pete / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr
- And what shall you say? / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr
- Rain music / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr
- Tired / Fenton Johnson
- The scarlet woman / Fenton Johnson
- Baptism / Claude McKay
- America / Claude McKay
- White houses / Claude McKay
- If we must die / Claude McKay
- The lynching / Claude McKay
- Flame-heart / Claude McKay
- Life-long, poor browning / Anne Spencer
- At the carnival / Anne Spencer
- Before the feast of Shushan / Anne Spencer
- Line to a Nastutium / Anne Spencer
- Song of the son / Jean Toomer
- Georgia Dusk / Jean Toomer
- Heritage / Countee Cullen
- To John Keats, poet at springtime / Countee Cullen
- Incident / Countee Cullen
- A brown girl dead / Countee Cullen
- From the dark tower / Countee Cullen
- Youth sings a song of rosebuds / Countee Cullen
- Pilate in modern America / George Leonard Allen
- To melody / George Leonard Allen
- The resurrection / Jonathan Brooks
- The last quarter moon of the dying year / Jonathan Brooks
- The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes
- The weary blues / Langston Hughes
- To midnight Nan at Leroy's / Langston Hughes
- Young Gal's blues / Langston Hughes
- Song for a dark girl / Langston Hughes
- Let America be America again / Langston Hughes
- Song to a negro washwoman / Langston Hughes
- The death bed / Waring Cuney
- No images / Waring Cuney
- Hard time blues / Waring Cuney
- Northboun' / Lucy Ariel Williams
- Nigger / Frank Horne
- Nocturne at Bethesda / Arna Bontemps
- A black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps
- Long gone / Sterling A. Brown
- Slim in hell / Sterling A. Brown
- Southern road / Sterling A. Brown
- Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown
- Break of day / Sterling A. Brown
- Strong men / Sterling A. Brwon
- Snapshots of the cotton south / Frank Marshall Davis
- Robert Whitmore / Frank Marshall Davis
- Arhur Ridgewood, M.D. / Frank Marshall Davis
- Giles Johnson, Ph. D. / Frank Marshall Davis
- Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson
- I have seen black hands / Richard Wright
- Cradle song / Owen Dodson
- Miss Packard and Miss Giles / Owen Dodson
- Prophesy / Robert E. Hayden
- Gabriel / Robert E. Hayden
- Speech / Robert E. Hayden
- Obituary / Robert E. Hayden
- Bacchanal / Robert E. Hayden
- For my people / Margaret Walker
- Folk literature
- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
- Swing low, swing chario'
- Steal away
- Deep river
- I got home in that rock
- I been rebuked and I been scorned
- De hammer keeps ringing
- De ole sheep dey know de road
- De blind man stood on the road
- He never said a mumbaling word
- Jushua fit de battle of Jericho
- O Mary. Don't you weep
- Go down, Moses
- Slavery chain
- No more auction block
- Noah
- If I had my way
- My God is a rock
- Slave Seculars
- Song (from Frederick Douglass)
- Song (from Martin R. Delany)
- Promises of freedom
- He is my horse
- Did you feed my cow?
- Folk song
- Run, nigger, run
- Raise a rukus tonight
- Aphorisms
- Ballads
- John Henry
- Bad man ballad
- Poor Lazarus
- De ballit of de boll weevil
- Old dog blue
- Frankie and Johnny
- Stackalee
- Work songs and social
- Songs
- Hammer song
- Death letter
- Roberta Lee
- It sound like thunder
- Hyah come de cap'm
- Social protest songs
- Standin' on de corner
- Lay down late
- Me and my cap'n
- Solicosis blues
- Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Dink's blues
- Mamie's blues
- Grievin' hearted blues
- Dirty no-gooder's blues
- The southern blues
- She's ma Mary
- Backwater blues
- When the levee breaks
- St. Louis cyclone blues
- Hard times blues
- Folk tales
- From mules and men
- Folk sermon
- From Jonah's gourd vine.
- V Drama
- Bad man / Randolph Edmonds
- The seer / James w. Butchner, Jr
- Judgement day / Thomas D. Pawley, Jr
- From divine comedy / Owen Dodson
- From big white fog / Theodore Ward
- VI Speeches, pamphlets, and letters
- Attack upon abjectness and ignorance / David Walker
- Extinguishing an extinguisher / Henry Highland Garnet.
- Letter to his master / Frederick Douglass
- Speech in Fanueil hall / Frederick Douglass
- Speech on the fugitive slave bill / Samuel Ringgold Ward
- Letters / William Wells Brown
- Condition of free negroes / Martin R. Delany
- Practical efforts / Martin R. Delany
- Letter to Garrison / William C. Nell
- Speech before sentence / Charles Langston
- Reply to his old mistress / Jermain W. Loguen
- Life on the sea islands / Charlotte Forten
- Defense of the negro race / George H. White
- From the exodus / John Merger Langston
- Speech at the Atlanta exposition / Booker T. Washington
- The negro's place in world reorganization / Marcus Garvey
- The Faith of the American negro / Mordecai W. Johnson
- Good news for the underprivileged / Howard Thurman
- VII Biography
- Abolitionist rescue / Milton Clarke
- Home at dawn / Josiah Henson
- Christmas on bayou boeuf / Solomon Northup
- Treatment of slaves on Lloyd's plantation / Frederick Douglass
- The Death of Lincoln / Eliabeth Keckley
- Young school master / Daniel A. Payne
- Called to preach / Daniel A. Payne
- Birth and early childhood / Booker T. Washington
- War activities / Robert Russa Morton
- A Christian missionary college / William Pickens
- From the lower rungs of the ladder / Benjamin G. Brawley
- The DuBois-Washington controversy / W.E.B. DuBois
- Search for employment / W.S. Braithwaite
- Georgia trail / Angelo Herndon
- Captain F. and the mayor of Norfolk / William Still
- John Jasper: the sun do move / Benjamin G. Brawley
- Sojourner truth / Arthur Huff Fauset
- A Biographical sketch of Archibald H. Grimke
- Some personal reminiscences of Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Paul Robeson and the provincetowers / Eslanda Goode Robeson
- VIII Essays Historical essays
- History made to order / Carter G. Woodson
- The Narrators / The Federal Writers
- Project
- From slave row
- Negro troops in civil war / George Washington Williams
- From the collapse of the confederacy / Charles H. Wesley
- Land and labor in the south / T Thomas Fortune
- An open letter to Thomas Dixon, Jr / Kelly Miller
- From the shadow of the plantation / Charles S. Johnson
- The pathology of race prejudice / E. Franklin Frazier
- The economics of the founding fathers / Abram L. Harris
- Disfranchisement of the negro / Ralph J. Bunche
- The education of the negro in the United States / Charles H. Thompson
- Cultural essays
- The new negro / Alain Locke
- Henry Ossawa Tanner / James A. Porter
- Early negro shows / James Weldon Johnson
- Of the sorrow songs / W.E.B. DuBois
- The negro dance / Katherine Dunham
- Personal essays
- A visit to Dunbar's tomb / Wendell Phillis Dabney
- I investigate lynchings / Walter White
- Mrs. Bailey pays the rent / Ira DeA. Reid
- A glorious company / Allison Davis
- A negro looks at his south / Horace Man Bond
- Confessions of an unwilling Nordic / Rayford W. Logan
- The ethics of living Jim Crow / Richard Wright.