African-American Poetry 1760-1900 includes the full text of
almost 3000 poems written by African-American poets in the late
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. African-American Poetry is
a resource for literary scholars and for researchers in black
studies, linguistics, women's studies, black literary heritage,
and comparative studies. The poetry explores a multitude of
topics, including abolition, children, civil rights, dreams,
education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty, political
issues, prejudice, and slavery. The variety of poem types is
equally broad. The database includes allegories, broadsides,
children's poems, elegiac poems, epics, hymns, odes, patriotic
poems, and sonnets. The poets are among those included in the
William French et al. bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and
Drama, 1760-1975. The full-text of the poems is included and is
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