(funded by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Purdue—this work also received support from a Field Development Grant awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals from the bequest of the Eileen Curran estate)
Poetry
by Gwendolyn Bennett
"Heritage"
by Louise Bennett
"Colonization in Reverse"
by William Cowper
"The Negro’s Complaint"
by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
"The Aboriginal Mother"
by Michael Madhusudan Dutt
"Sonnets" (assorted)
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (headnote available)
"An Appeal to My Country Women"
"Free Labor"
"Learning to Read"
"The Slave Mother"
by Felicia Hemans (headnote available)
"I Dream of All Things Free"
"The Indian with His Dead Child"
"Indian Woman's Death-Song"
by James Weldon Johnson
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
"Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Ressurection Day"
by E. Pauline Johnson
"The Cattle Thief"
by Rudyard Kipling
"The White Man's Burden"
by Henry LaBouchère
"The Brown Man's Burden"
by Claude McKay
"The Harlem Dancer"
by Hannah More (headnote available)
"The Black Slave Trade"
"Slavery. A Poem"
by Hannah More and Eaglesfield Smith
"The Sorrows of Yamba; or, The Negro Woman’s Lamentation"
by John Newton
"Amazing Grace"
by Grace Nichols
"The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping"
by Thomas Pringle
"Afar in the Desert"
"The Hottentot"
"Makanna's Gathering"
by Mary Robinson (headnote available)
"The Negro Girl"
by Henry David Thoreau (headnote available)
"Wait not till slaves pronounce the word"
by Derek Walcott
"A Far Cry from Africa"
by Ann Yearsley (headnote available)
"A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade"
Prose
by Selim Aga/Agha
Africa Considered in Its Social and Political Condition
"A Trip Up the Congo or Zaire River"
"My Parentage and Early Career as a Slave"
by Anon.
The Woman of Color, A Tale
by William Stanley Braithwaite
"The Negro in American Literature"
by Charles W. Chesnutt
The Marrow of Tradition
by Thomas Clarkson
Excerpts from The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament
by Dinah Craik
"The Half-Caste"
by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
from "from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species"
by Benjamin Drew (headnote available)
A North Side View of Slavery; The Refugee, or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
by Frederick Douglass (headnote available)
"The Heroic Slave"
"Letter to the Editor of The Times"
"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro: Speech at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852"
by 
W.E.B. Dubois
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
by Rudolph Fisher
"The City of Refuge"
"Vestiges"
by Benjamin Franklin (headnote available)
"Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America"
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted
by Zora Neale Hurston
"Characteristics of Negro Expression"
"Spunk"
by Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
by James Weldon Johnson
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
by Elizabeth Keckley
Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
by Rudyard Kipling
"The Story of Muhammed Din"
by Mary Kirby
"Going to School in India"
"A Little About Caste"
by Nella Larsen
Passing
by Richard Ligon
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
by Alain Locke
"Negro Youth Speaks"
"The New Negro"
by Thomas Macaulay
"Minute on Indian Education"
by John Marrant (headnote availale)
from "A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black"
by Harriet Martineau (headnote availale)
from Society in America
by John Matheus
"Fog"
by Henry Mayhew
"Hindoo Beggar"
by T.N. Mukharji
A Visit to Europe, excerpts
by Mary Prince
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself, excerpt
by Mary Seacole
The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole
by Zadie Smith
"The Waiter's Wife"
by Cornelia Sorabji
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
by Wole Soyinka
"Telephone Conversation"
by Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (headnote available)
from Through the Dark Continent
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Decolonizing the Mind: Native African Languages, excerpts
by Jean Toomer
Cane
"Carma," from Cane
by Sojourner Truth (headnote available)
"Speech at the American Equal Rights Association", May 9–10, 1867
by David Walker (headnote available)
"An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"
by Eric Walrond
Tropic Death
by Robert Wedderburn
The Horrors of Slavery
by John Greenleaf Whittier (headnote available)
"The Hunters of Men"
"Massachusetts to Virginia"