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Title Author Year
from “Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters” Yusef Komunyakaa, Laren McClung 2020
Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770–1863 Kiki Petrosino 2020
To Sir Toby Philip Freneau 1795
Free Labor Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1857
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864) Aaron Coleman 2020
The Dawn’s Awake! Otto Leland Bohanan 1922
We are Marching Carrie Law Morgan Figgs 1920
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
The Prophetess Sojourner Truth Discusses the Two Different Versions of Her Most Well-Known Speech, One Nearly Unknown and One Very Beloved Yet Mostly Untrue Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2018
The Slave Auction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #14 Tiana Clark 2018
In Praise of Okra January Gill O’Neil 2009
Oriflamme Jessie Redmon Fauset 1920
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
Miracle in the Collection Plate Marilyn Nelson 2016
Naming Ceremony Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2015
O Black and Unknown Bards James Weldon Johnson 1922
Song of the Son Jean Toomer 1923
The Slave's Complaint George Moses Horton 1829

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