African American Literature

By Jhonatan Marulanda & Santiago Arboleda

First literary works published in USA

Slave Narratives

The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African in 1789

Abolitionist Movement

Frederick Douglas' Autobiography

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas in 1845

Slave Narrative

Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in 1861

Essays Concerning Social Mobility and Access to Employment & Education

Black Writers

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
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Washington's Up From Slavery in 1901

Dubois' Souls Of Black Folk in 1903

Fiction & Poetry by Black Writers

The Poet Claude Mckay

"If We Must Die" in 1917

Deep South to trace paths of institutionalized racism

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Were Watching God in 1937

Jean Toomer

Toomer's Cane in 1923

Other Literary Works of the Century

Richard Wright: Native Son in 1940

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man in 1952

Alice Walker: The Color Purple in 1982

Toni Morrison: Beloved in 1987