Selected African American writing from 1760 to 1910 / [electronic resource] edited by Arthur P. Davis, J. Saunders Redding, Joyce Ann Joyce.

Abridged version of: The New cavalcade. Howard University Press, 1991-1992.

To the University of Cambridge, in New-England ; On being brought from Africa to America ; On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 ; An hymn to the morning ; An hymn to the evening ; On imagination ; To his excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- An address to Miss Phillis Wheatly ; An address to the negroes of the state of New York / Jupiter Hammon -- From Equiano's travels / Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano) -- An acrostic for Julia Shepard ; The creditor to his proud debtor ; George Moses Horton, myself ; On liberty and slavery ; To Eliza ; Jefferson in a tight place: the fox is caught ; The slave ; Slavery ; Snaps for dinner, snaps for breakfast and snaps for supper ; Letter to Mr. Horace Greeley / George Moses Horton.

From Clotelle ; From My southern home / William Wells Brown -- My father's death ; Varieties / Harriet E. Wilson -- Hopes consummated / Frank J. Webb -- America ; How long? ; The north star / James Monroe Whitfield -- From The life and times of Frederick Douglass ; The fourth of July / Frederick Douglass -- The struggle for an education ; An address delivered at the opening of the Cotton States' Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, September, 1895 ; Address delivered at the Harvard Alumni dinner in 1896 / Booker T. Washington -- The slave auction ; The dying bondman ; Bury me in a free land ; A double standard ; Learning to read / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Bro'r Adr'm Jimson's wedding: a Christmas story / Pauline E. Hopkins -- The Goophered grapevine ; The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chesnutt -- An ante-bellum sermon ; Ode to Ethiopia ; When de co'n pone's hot ; Signs of the times ; We wear the mask ; Chrismus on the plantation ; Anner 'Lizer's stumblin' block / Paul Laurence Dunbar.