Harriet Wilson
Harriet Wilson

1859 Our Nig

Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley

1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown

1853 Clotel: Or the President's Daughter in London

Frank Webb
Frank Webb

1857 The Garries and their Friends

Lucy Terry
Lucy Terry

1855 "Bars Fight" (presrved orally from 1746 until its publication in 1855)

Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer

1923 Cane

Eliza Suggs
Eliza Suggs

1906 Shadows and Sunshine

Claude McKay
Claude McKay

1912 "Songs of Jamaica"

Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux

1913 Conquest: Story of A Negro Pioneer

Claude McKay
Claude McKay

1919 If We Must Die

Claude McKay
Claude McKay

1912 Songs of Jamaica

Alaine Locke
Alaine Locke

1925 "The New Negro"

James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson

1927 God's Trombones: Seven Negro Semons in Verse

James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson

1912 Autobiography of An Ex-Coloured Man

James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson

1922 The Book of American Negro Poetry