Selected Essays in Black History

Contents

• Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl
  by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Reconstruction
  by Frederick Douglass
• An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
  by Frederick Douglas
• The Negro Exodus
  by James B. Runnion
• My Escape from Slavery
  by Frederick Douglass
• The Goophered Grapevine
  by Charles W. Chesnutt
• Po' Sandy
  by Charles W. Chesnutt
• Dave's Neckliss
  by Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Awakening of the Negro
  by Booker T. Washington
• The Story of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  by Charles Dudley Warner
• Strivings of the Negro People
  by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
• The Wife of His Youth
  by Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Bouquet
  by Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Case of the Negro
  by Booker T. Washington
• Hot-Foot Hannibal
  by Charles W. Chesnutt
• A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South
  by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
• The Capture of a Slaver
  by J. Taylor Wood
• Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories
  by W. D. Howells
• Paths of Hope for the Negro
  by Jerome Dowd
• Signs of Progress Among the Negroes
  by Booker T. Washington
• The March of Progress
  by Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Freedmen's Bureau
  by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
• Of the Training of Black Men
  by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
• The Fruits of Industrial Training
  by Booker T. Washington
• The Negro in the Regular Army
  by Oswald Garrison Villard
• Baxter's Procrustes
  by Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Heart of the Race Problem
  by Quincy Ewing
• Negro Suffrage in a Democracy
  by Ray Stannard Baker