Interesting essay question

Venture Smith:

· Biographical introduction

· "A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa"

Olaudah Equiano

· Biographical introduction

· all excerpts from "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano"

Harriet Jacobs

· Biographical introduction

· all excerpts from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Frederick Douglass

· Biographical introduction

· all excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

David Walker

· Biographical introduction

· Complete excerpt of David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles

Maria Stewart

· Biographical introduction

· "Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality"

· "Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall"

From the Norton Anthology:

· "Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance" Introduction

Booker T. Washington

· Biographical introduction

· All excerpts from Up From Slavery

W. E. B. Du Bois 686-689

· Biographical introduction

· All excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk

Anna Julia Cooper

· Biographical introduction

· "Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race"

Ida B. Wells Barnett

· Biographical introduction

· all excerpts from A Red Record

James Weldon Johnson

· Biographical introduction

· Chapters I-V of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 

Paul Lawrence Dunbar

· Biographical introduction

· All poems

Alain Locke

· Biographical introduction

· "The New Negro"

Marcus Garvey

· Biographical introduction

· "Africa for the Africans"

Claude McKay

· Biographical introduction

· All poems in anthology

Zora Neale Hurston

· Biographical introduction

· "Sweat"

· "Characteristics of Negro Expression"

Jean Toomer 

· Biographical Introduction

· Cane Chapters Karintha-Blood-Burning Moon

Langston Hughes

· Biographical information

· All of his poems

· "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"