Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780810317284
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0810317281
Series Statement:
Dictionary of literary biography v. 50
Content:
James Madison Bell (1826-1902) -- William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962) -- William Wells Brown (1814-1884) -- James Edwin Campbell (1867-1896) -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) -- James D. Corrothers (1869-1917) -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. (1861-1949) -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. (1895-1919) -- Martin Robinson Delany (1812-1885) -- Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895) -- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)(circa 1745-1797) -- Charlotte L. Forten (1837-1914) -- Sutton Elbert Griggs (1872-1930) -- Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958) -- Jupiter Hammon (1711-died between 1790 and 1806) -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) -- Walter Everette Hawkins (1883-death date unknown) -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) -- George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?) -- Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) -- George Marion McClellan (1860-1934) -- James E. McGirt (1874-1930) -- Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951) -- Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935) -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1849-1916) -- Victor Sejour (Juan Victor Sejour Marcou et Ferrand)(1817-1874) -- Frank J. Webb (birth and death dates unknown) -- Phillis Wheatley (circa 1754-1784) -- James Monroe Whitfield (1822-1871) -- Albery Allson Whitman (1851-1901) -- Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1828?-1863?) -- Appendices: Charlotte Forten: pages from her diary -- John Edward Bruce: three documents -- Introduction to Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896)" -- "The Negro as a Writer" -- "Negro Poets and Their Poetry."
Content:
Presents a corollary history of the publishing outlets and efforts of early Afro-American writers writing in the 1920s or before; focuses on how resourceful black writers had to be in order to get their works to the reading public before more substantial and self-sustaining publishing outlets were established
Note:
Original 369 p
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Mode of access: Internet.
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
