African American authors
Posted: July 4th, 2018, 4:46 am
There is an expanded list here viewtopic.php?f=1&t=70911 that is being kept up to date as works are identified and then recorded for LV.
I received via email a suggestion about us including more African American authors , They provided a list which I've been working on checking whether we have them. Or any PD ones we do not have , (a reminded that they need to be published before 1927 or declared PD by Project Gutenberg research for us to use. If you have any additions or I've missed any we have in the catalogue post a reply here
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Catalogued twice plus articles plus life and times
My Bondage and My Freedom (1855).http://web.archive.org/web/20081007231345/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DouMybo.html ? expaned to form life and times
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861).Catalogued
Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859)Catalogued
Frank J. Webb’s 1857 novel, The Garies and Their Friends https://archive.org/details/gariesandtheirf00webbgoog
first African-American fiction to portray passing,
The Bondwoman’s Narrative, which was written by Hannah Crafts between 1853 and 1860. ?? published 2002 ??
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853), considered to be the first novel written by an African American. It was based on the persistent rumor that president Thomas Jeffersonhad fathered a mixed-race daughter with his slave Sally Hemings. William Wells Brown (1814–84) Catalogued
short story "Le Mulâtre" ("The Mulatto") in 1837. It is the first known fiction by an African American, but as it was written in French and published in a French journal, it had apparently no influence on later American literature. Séjour never returned to African-American themes in his subsequent works.[17
Victor Séjour (1817–74) ? translation ? availabilty
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral Phillis Wheatley Catalogued
Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter Josephine Brown https://archive.org/details/biographyofameri00brow
Oak and Ivy, Paul Laurence Dunbar,When Malindy Sings (1906) Joggin' Erlong (1906) provide revealing glimpses into the lives of rural African Americans of the day. Though Dunbar died young, he was a prolific poet, essayist, novelist (among them The Uncalled, 1898 and The Fanatics, 1901)
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African-American author,
The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales (1899) Catalogued, at least the first tale
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899) Catalogued
Frederick Douglass (1899) Catalogued
The House Behind the Cedars (1900) novel Catalogued
The Marrow of Tradition (1901), novel Catalogued
The Colonel's Dream (1905), novel Catalogued
Published posthumously[edit] ?????? PD
A Business Career (written in the 1890s; published 2005, University Press of Mississippi)
Mandy Oxendine (written in the 1890s; published in 1997)
Paul Marchand, F.M.C. (written in 1921; published 1998, University Press of Mississippi)
Evelyn's Husband (2005, University Press of Mississippi)
The Quarry (written 1928; published 1999, Princeton University Press)
Collection[edit]
Stories, Novels and Essays: The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth & Other Stories of the Color Line, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, Uncollected Stories, Selected Essays (Werner Sollors, ed., Library of America, 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-06-8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Harper
Frances Harper - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in ...
Forest Leaves, verse, 1845
Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, 1854
The Two Offers, 1859
Moses: A Story of the Nile, 1869
Sketches of Southern Life, 1872
Light Beyond the Darkness, 1890
The Martyr of Alabama and Other Poems, 1894
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, novel, 1892 Catalogued
Idylls of the Bible, 1901
In Memoriam, Wm. McKinley, 1901
Free Labor
In addition, the following three novels were originally published in serial form in the Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888:[10]
Minnie's Sacrifice http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11053
Sowing and Reaping http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11022
Trial and Triumph http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11056
the life of Olaudah Equiano Catalogued [/quote]
I received via email a suggestion about us including more African American authors , They provided a list which I've been working on checking whether we have them. Or any PD ones we do not have , (a reminded that they need to be published before 1927 or declared PD by Project Gutenberg research for us to use. If you have any additions or I've missed any we have in the catalogue post a reply here
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Catalogued twice plus articles plus life and times
My Bondage and My Freedom (1855).http://web.archive.org/web/20081007231345/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DouMybo.html ? expaned to form life and times
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861).Catalogued
Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859)Catalogued
Frank J. Webb’s 1857 novel, The Garies and Their Friends https://archive.org/details/gariesandtheirf00webbgoog
first African-American fiction to portray passing,
The Bondwoman’s Narrative, which was written by Hannah Crafts between 1853 and 1860. ?? published 2002 ??
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853), considered to be the first novel written by an African American. It was based on the persistent rumor that president Thomas Jeffersonhad fathered a mixed-race daughter with his slave Sally Hemings. William Wells Brown (1814–84) Catalogued
short story "Le Mulâtre" ("The Mulatto") in 1837. It is the first known fiction by an African American, but as it was written in French and published in a French journal, it had apparently no influence on later American literature. Séjour never returned to African-American themes in his subsequent works.[17
Victor Séjour (1817–74) ? translation ? availabilty
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral Phillis Wheatley Catalogued
Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter Josephine Brown https://archive.org/details/biographyofameri00brow
Oak and Ivy, Paul Laurence Dunbar,When Malindy Sings (1906) Joggin' Erlong (1906) provide revealing glimpses into the lives of rural African Americans of the day. Though Dunbar died young, he was a prolific poet, essayist, novelist (among them The Uncalled, 1898 and The Fanatics, 1901)
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African-American author,
The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales (1899) Catalogued, at least the first tale
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899) Catalogued
Frederick Douglass (1899) Catalogued
The House Behind the Cedars (1900) novel Catalogued
The Marrow of Tradition (1901), novel Catalogued
The Colonel's Dream (1905), novel Catalogued
Published posthumously[edit] ?????? PD
A Business Career (written in the 1890s; published 2005, University Press of Mississippi)
Mandy Oxendine (written in the 1890s; published in 1997)
Paul Marchand, F.M.C. (written in 1921; published 1998, University Press of Mississippi)
Evelyn's Husband (2005, University Press of Mississippi)
The Quarry (written 1928; published 1999, Princeton University Press)
Collection[edit]
Stories, Novels and Essays: The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth & Other Stories of the Color Line, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, Uncollected Stories, Selected Essays (Werner Sollors, ed., Library of America, 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-06-8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Harper
Frances Harper - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in ...
Forest Leaves, verse, 1845
Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, 1854
The Two Offers, 1859
Moses: A Story of the Nile, 1869
Sketches of Southern Life, 1872
Light Beyond the Darkness, 1890
The Martyr of Alabama and Other Poems, 1894
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, novel, 1892 Catalogued
Idylls of the Bible, 1901
In Memoriam, Wm. McKinley, 1901
Free Labor
In addition, the following three novels were originally published in serial form in the Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888:[10]
Minnie's Sacrifice http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11053
Sowing and Reaping http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11022
Trial and Triumph http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11056
the life of Olaudah Equiano Catalogued [/quote]