Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1
by Various
About this book
This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches found on Project Gutenberg that are by or about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Chapters (22)
1Ex-slave James Bolton
2Death of Charles
3Fifty Years
4Personal Liberty Laws
5Reporting
6The Ku Klux Klan
7Your Negro Neighbor
8The Praline Woman
9Ex-Slave Minnie Davis
10Where The Negro Lives
11Nobody's Lookin' But De Owl and De Moon
12A Plea For Industrial Opportunity
13Sketches of the Black Baptist Church
14Lawing and Jawing
15Excerpt from The Future of the American Negro
16Hot Foot Hannibal
17The Passing Tradition and The African Civilization
18The Sunday School and Church...
19Ex-Slave Pierce Cody
20Here Comes A Young Man Courting
21'Lazy'
22Of The Meaning of Progress
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