The Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays. Illustrated

William Wells Brown with Charles Gilbert, Alfred S. Thornton, Nella Larsen, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Johnson, Henry Box Brown, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harry Grimes, John Henry Hill, Mary Frances Melvin, Phillis Wheatley, Aunt Hannah Moore, Josiah Henson, Jean Toomer, Samuel Green, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Matilda Mahoney, Jamie Griffin, Langston Hughes, Charles Ball, Seth Concklin, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Mary Prince, Elizabeth Keckley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet E. Wilson, Countee Cullen, Theophilus Collins, Solomon Northup, James Hambleton Christian, Louis Hughes