Early African-American classics

Prologue, a selection from The souls of Black folk / by W.E.B. Du Bois

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / by Frederick Douglass

Selections from Incidents in the life of a slave girl / by Harriet A. Jacobs

Selections from Up from slavery / by Booker T. Washington

Selections from the autobiography of an ex-coloured man / by James Weldon Johnson.