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Vendor:

Chadwyck-Healey

Brief Description:

African American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It provides a comprehensive survey of the early history of African American poetry, from the earliest published African American poems to the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American poet to achieve national success and recognition.

Full Description:

Coverage includes writers from both North and South, from rural and urban backgrounds, and ranges from University-educated professionals to those for whom the very acts of reading and writing constituted a defiance of Southern slave laws. Generically, poems range from ballads, broadsides and humorous verse to Romantic odes, sonnets and historical epics.

Coverage:

18th and 19th centuries

Number & Type of Contents:

Nearly 3,000 poems

Geographic Focus:

United States

Formats:

Electronic Resource

Type:

Primary Sources

Subjects:

African American Studies, Arts & Humanities, English

Liaison:

S. Skekloff

URL:

http://collections.chadwyck.com/home/home_aap.jsp