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Book SynopsisIn this bestselling companion to her pioneering study, Invisible Poets, Joan Sherman continues to make new generations aware of the invisible legacy of nineteenth-century black American poetry. The 171 poems here, by thirty-five men and women, have been transcribed from first editions and are annotated in detail.
Trade Review"Ever since
Invisible Poets we have needed an informed and comprehensive anthology of African-American poetry in the nineteenth century. Now we have it. No one but Sherman could have done the job so well."--
William L. Andrews, author of
To Tell a Free StoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1
A Note to the Reader 15
George Moses Horton 17
Noah Calwell Cannon 38
Charles Lewis Reason 41
Ann Plato 50
Joshua McCarter Simpson 54
James Monroe Whitfield 71
Daniel Alexander Payne 94
Alfred Gibbs Campbell 102
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 112
Joseph Cephas Holly 146
George Boyer Vashon 153
Elymas Payson Rogers 166
Adah Isaacs Menken 182
James Madison Bell 192
Charlotte L. Forten Grimke 211
Alfred Islay Walden 221
Albery Allson Whitman 236
Henrietta Cordelia Ray 265
John Willis Menard 282
Robert Charles O'Hara Benjamin 288
Timothy Thomas Fortune 293
James Edwin Campbell 306
Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. 325
George Clinton Rowe 342
Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard 360
Daniel Webster Davis 365
Edward W. Williams 382
Paul Laurence Dunbar 386
George Marion McClellan 416
Eloise Alberta Veronica Bibb 434
Mary Weston Fordham 441
Frank Barbour Coffin 447
James Ephriam McGirt 456
Samuel Alfred Beadle 464
Priscilla Jane Thompson 472
Bibliography 484
Subject Index 500
Title and Poet Index 504
