| Description |
2 volumes ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Morgan State series in Afro-American studies |
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Morgan State series in Afro-American studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 439-444; volume 2, pages 407-412). |
| Contents |
v. 1. Of the nature and manners of the people / Thomas Hariot -- Saved by Pocahontas / John Smith -- Betrothed to Pocahontas ; The black record begins / John Rolfe -- Profitable unto them / William Bradford -- Converts of "the Apostle to the Indians" / John Eliot -- In grievous captivity / Mary Rowlandson -- Slaves and the slave trade ; The selling of Joseph ; Indian boundaries / Samuel Sewall -- Hannah Dustan and the Indians ; On the conversion of Negroes / Cotton Mather -- Indulgent Connecticut / Sarah Kemble Knight -- A visit to Virginia's Indians / William Byrd -- Observations concerning the increase of mankind, peopling of countries, etc. ; Indians and Germans in Pennsylvania ; If it be right to kill men ; Savage we call them / Benjamin Franklin -- I believe liberty is their right / John Woolman -- To the University of Cambridge, in New-England ; On being brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley -- Are not these blacks thy children? / St. Jean de Crèvecoeur -- Daniel Boone's last adventures ; Indian genius / John Filson -- A black minister held captive by the Cherokees / John Marrant -- Red men and black men ; Benjamin Banneker ; Talent is no measure of rights ; Virginia's definition of a mulatto ; African colonization / Thomas Jefferson -- A race under abuse and censure / Benjamin Banneker -- On the diversity of the human species ; The trial of Mamachtaga, an Indian / Hugh Henry Brackenridge -- To Sir Toby ; The death song of a Cherokee Indian ; The prophecy of King Tammany ; The Indian burying ground ; The Indian convert ; The Indian student / Philip Freneau -- A black soul in a white body / Royall Tyler -- Portrait of an emigrant / Charles Brockden Brown -- Philip of Pokanoket ; The Creole village / Washington Irving -- An Indian at the burial-place of his fathers ; The African chief / William Cullen Bryant -- Chingachgook, a noble savage ; An humbled and much degraded race ; Frolicking blacks in old Manhattan / James Fenimore Cooper -- The happy slaves of Swallow Barn / John Pendleton Kennedy -- Backwoods incidents / Davy Crockett -- The white nigger / Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- Indian warfare on the Kentucky border / Robert Montgomery Bird -- The commencement crowd at Williams College, 1838 ; The Duston family / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Sioux and old Toby / Edgar Allen Poe -- California and its inhabitants / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- The slave's dream ; The quadroon girl ; The Jewish cemetary at Newport ; Hiawatha's wooing / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The civilization of the Negro / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The right to write ; David Ruggles and Sojourner Truth / Frederick Douglass -- The prejudice of color ; A Chippewa legend / James Russell Lowell -- Plantation philanderer ; The noble North American Indian / William Gilmore Simms -- The black Saxons / Lydia Maria Child -- Black shipmates and Irish emigrants ; Poor Pip! ; A close shave ; Formerly a slave / Herman Melville -- At a Dahcotah village / Francis Parkman -- Black, white, and red in Seminole land / Mayne Reid -- Uncle Tom's cabin / George L. Aiken -- Light slave and white slave : Clotel and Salome / William Wells Brown -- Irishmen and others in Walden Woods / Henry David Thoreau. |
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v. 2. Myself and others ; The menials of the earth ; Ethiopia saluting the colors / Walt Whitman -- A mountain man among the Crows / James P. Beckwourth -- Dred, a free man / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's own story / Josiah Henson -- The octoroon / Dion Boucicault -- At the pantomime / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- His Indian mother / Ann S. Stephens -- Brown of Ossawatomie ; Howard at Atlanta / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Lust and the female slave / Harriet Brent Jacobs -- Petroleum V. Nasby on the diversity of the races / David Ross Locke -- The white colored people of New Orleans ; An independent Ku-Klux / John W. DeForest -- Plan language from truthful James ; John Chinaman ; The latest Chinese outrage ; Wan Lee, the pagan ; That Ebrew Jew / Bret Harte -- Mrs. Johnson ; A neighborhood in transition ; Memories of an Ohio boyhood / William Dean Howells -- The gentle, inoffensive Chinese ; A true story repeated word for word as I heard it ; Disgraceful persecution of a boy ; A remorseful father / Mark Twain -- The racial mélange in Bucktown / Lafcadio Hearn -- The freedmen and the Klan / Albion W. Tourgée -- Chief Joseph and General Howard / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The wonderful tar-baby story ; Free Joe and the rest of the world / Joel Chandler Harris -- The Jewish problem ; The new colossus ; The new Ezekiel / Emma Lazarus -- A diarist's prejudices / Henry James -- The quadroons of old New Orleans ; What is a Creole? ; Mr. Ristofalo and Mrs. Riley ; The school in the haunted house / George W. Cable -- What is a white man? ; Frederick Douglass on the abolitionist circuit / Charles W. Chestnutt -- Blood on the snow / Joaquin Miller -- Italians and others in the tenements of New York ; A Jewish wedding in Liberty Hall / Jacob A. Riis -- The Johnsons of Rum Alley ; A hero in lavender trousers ; The Jacksons of Whilomville / Stephen Crane -- Uncle Jack's views of geography / Thomas Nelson Page -- Old Aunt Peggy ; La belle Zoraïde / Kate Chopin -- The Atlanta exposition address / Booker T. Washington -- Little brown baby ; We wear the mask ; An ante-bellum sermon ; Negro life in Washington / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The Irish reconsidered / Harold Frederic -- The deceased's survivors / Theodore Dreiser -- Mismated schemers / Frank Norris -- The apostate of Chego-Chegg / Abraham Cahan -- On the Anglo-Saxon ; On the Indian war ; The Negro problem / Finley Peter Dunne. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Subject |
American literature.
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Minorities -- United States -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Butcher, Philip, 1918-2011
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Minority presence in American literature, 1600-1900. Washington : Howard University Press, 1977 (OCoLC)567964921 |
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Online version: Minority presence in American literature, 1600-1900. Washington : Howard University Press, 1977 (OCoLC)607674947 |
| ISBN |
0882581015 v. 1 |
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9780882581019 v. 1 |
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0882580612 paperback v. 1 |
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9780882580616 paperback v. 1 |
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0882581023 v. 2 |
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9780882581026 v. 2 |
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0882581007 paperback v. 2 |
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9780882581002 paperback v. 2 |
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