Black American Prose Writers: Before the Harlem Renaissance

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• Black American Prose Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance *
• Black American Prose Writers - Before the Harlem Renaissance *
• Contents *
• User's Guide vi
• The Life of the Author vii
• Introduction xi
• William Stanley Braithwaite 1878-1962 1
• William Wells Brown C. 1814-1884 10
• Charles W. Chesnutt 1858-1932 21
• Martin R. Delany 1812-1885 35
• Frederick Douglass 1818-1895 49
• W. E. B. Du Bois 1868-1963 62
• Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906 78
• Sutton E. Griggs 1872-1930 90
• Pauline E. Hopkins 1859-1930 103
• James Weldon Johnson 1871-1938 115

• Black American Prose Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance *
• Black American Prose Writers - Before the Harlem Renaissance *
• Contents *
• User's Guide vi
• The Life of the Author vii
• Introduction xi
• William Stanley Braithwaite 1878-1962 1
• William Wells Brown C. 1814-1884 10
• Charles W. Chesnutt 1858-1932 21
• Martin R. Delany 1812-1885 35
• Frederick Douglass 1818-1895 49
• W. E. B. Du Bois 1868-1963 62
• Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906 78
• Sutton E. Griggs 1872-1930 90
• Pauline E. Hopkins 1859-1930 103
• James Weldon Johnson 1871-1938 115
• Oscar Micheaux 1884-1951 129
• Frank J. Webb C. 1830-C. 1870 140
• Harriet E. Wilson C. 1828-C. 1863 150