The Black experience: an anthology of American literature for the 1970s

Negro songs. John Henry

Swing low, sweet chariot

Nobody knows de trouble I see

All God's chillun got shoes

We shall overcome

Go down, Moses

Didn' my Lord deliver Daniel?

No more auction block

Free at las'.

from The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Edgar Allan Poe

Caloya, or, The loves of the driver / William Gilmore Simms

from Uncle Tom's cabin. Topsy ; The martyr ; [A letter to a friend] / Harriet Beecher Stowe

from Swallow Barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion. The quarter / John Pendleton Kennedy

from Leaves of grass. from Song of myself ; from I sing the body electric / Walt Whitman

from the Leaves of grass.

Ethiopia saluting the colors / Walt Whitman

Benito Cereno / Herman Melville

from The Old Dominion, or, The Southampton massacre / G.P.R. James

from The octoroon, or, Life in Louisiana / Dion Boucicault

from The grandissimes. Palmyre philosophe ; The story of bras-coupé ; Clemence / George Washington Cable

from The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Christmas-night in the quarters / Irwin Russell

from Free Joe, and other Georgian sketches. Free Joe and the rest of the world / Joel Chandler Harris

from Uncle Remus and his friends. Death and the Negro man / Joel Chandler Harris

Accountability ; The colored soldiers ; We wear the mask ; Why fades a dream? ; Sympathy ; The news ; Christmas on the plantation ; At candle lightin' time ; The colored band ; Black Samson of Brandywine ; On the dedication of Dorothy Hall ; To the South ; Compensation / Paul Laurence Dunbar

Po' Sandy ; The passing of Grandison / Charles W. Chestnutt

The knife / Stephen Crane

The Congo / Vachel Lindsay

The song of the smoke ; from The souls of black folk / W.E.B. Dubois

Nigger Jeff / Theodore Dreiser

O black and unknown bards ; Go down death : a funeral sermon / James Weldon Johnson

Summer morn in New Hampshire ; Home thoughts ; Baptism ; If we must die ; The lynching ; Outcast ; The Negro's tragedy ; America ; Harlem shadows ; The white house / Claude McKay

Yet do I marvel ; A song of praise ; Incident ; Heritage ; From the dark tower ; Black majesty / Countee Cullen

A black man talks of reaping ; The day-breakers ; Southern mansion / Arna Bontemps

from The man who became a woman / Sherwood Anderson

Fern / Jean Toomer

Advent of the slaves / William Carlos Williams

Red leaves / William Faulkner

A sequence of servants / James Thurber

The man who went to Chicago / Richard Wright

A worn path / Eudora Welty

For my people / Margaret Walker

Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson

The other Margaret / Lionel Trilling

Daybreak in Alabama ; Roland Hayes beaten (Georgia : 1942) ; Railroad Avenue ; Theme for English B ; High to low ; Subway rush hour ; Harlem ; A toast to Harlem ; Temptation ; Lenox Avenue bar / Langston Hughes

The preacher : ruminates behind the sermon ; People who have no children can be hard ; The bean eaters ; The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock ; Medgar Evers / Gwendolyn Brooks

The art of fiction : an interview / Ralph Ellison

from Notes of a native son. Stranger in the village / James Baldwin

from On the road / Jack Kerouac

Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; Ostriches & grandmothers ; Way out west ; Notes for a speech ; A poem for black hearts / Le Roi Jones

from Pinktoes. Excursion in paradox / Chester Himes

Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor

Tour 5 ; Runagate runagate / Robert Hayden

from Soul on ice. On Watts ; Soul food ; On becoming / Eldridge Cleaver.