(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)
Drama
by Willis Richardson
"Compromise: A Folk Play"
Poetry
by Lewis Alexander
"Enchantment"
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
"Heritage"
"Song"
by Louise Bennett
"Colonization in Reverse"
by Arna Bontemps
"The Day-Breakers"
by William Cowper
"The Negro’s Complaint"
by Countée Cullen
"A Brown Girl Dead"
"Fruit of the Flower"
"Harlem Wine"
"Heritage"
"In Memory of Colonel Charles Young"
"She of the Dancing Feet Sings"
"Tableau""To a Brown Boy"
"To a Brown Girl"
"Youth Sings a Song of Rosebud"
by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
"The Aboriginal Mother"
by Michael Madhusudan Dutt
"Sonnets" (assorted)
by Angelina Grimke
"The Black Finger"
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 Langston Hughes
"Dream Variation"
"An Earth Song"
"Harlem"
"I Too"
"Jazzonia"
"Minstrel Man"
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"Nude Young Dancer"
"Our Land"
"Poem"
"Song"
by E. Pauline Johnson
"The Cattle Thief"
by Georgia Douglas Johnson
"To Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Upon Hearing His"
"The Ordeal"
"Escape"
"The Riddle"
by Helen Johnson
"The Road"
by James Weldon Johnson
"The Creation"
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
"Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Ressurection Day"
"Youth"
by Rudyard Kipling
"The White Man's Burden"
by Henry LaBouchère
"The Brown Man's Burden"
by Juan Francisco Manzano
Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated
by Claude McKay
"Baptism"
"The Harlem Dancer"
"Like a Strong Tree"
"Negro Dancers"
"Russian Cathedral"
"The Tropics of New York"
"White Houses"
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 Anne Spencer
"Lady, Lady"
by Henry David Thoreau (headnote available)
"Wait not till slaves pronounce the word"
by Jean Toomer
"Georgia Dusk"
"Song of the Son"
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.
"B'rer Rabbit Fools Buzzard"
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 W. A. Domingo
"Gift of the Black Tropics"
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. Du Bois
"The Negro Mind Reaches Out"
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
by Arthur Fauset
"American Negro Folk Literature"
by Jessie Fauset
"The Gift of Laughter"
by Rudolph Fisher
"The City of Refuge"
"Vestiges"
by E. Franklin Frazier
"Durham: Capital of the Black Middle Class"
by Benjamin Franklin (headnote available)
"Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America"
by James Anthony Froude
The English in the West Indies, excerpts
by Montgomery Gregory
"The Drama of Negro Life"
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted
by Melville J. Herskovits
"The Negro's Americanism"
by Zora Neale Hurston
"Characteristics of Negro Expression"
"Spunk"
by Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
by Charles S. Johnson
"The New Frontage on American Life"
by James Weldon Johnson
"Harlem: The Culture Capital"
by Elizabeth Keckley
Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
by Paul U. Kellogg
"The Negro Pioneers"
by Rudyard Kipling
"The Story of Muhammed Din"
"Without Benefit of Clergy"
by Mary Kirby
"Going to School in India"
"A Little About Caste"
by Nella Larsen
Passing
Told by Cugo Lewis (brought to America from West Coast Africa, 1859)
"T'appin"
by Richard Ligon
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
by Alain Locke
"The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts"
"The Negro Spirituals"
"Negro Youth Speaks"
"The New Negro"
by Thomas Macaulay
"Minute on Indian Education"
by Juan Francisco Manzano
Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated [including significant prose sections]
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"
London Labour and the London Poor, No. 24, Of the Street-Sellers of Rhubarb and Spice (with geolocation)
London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 3, Tom-tom Players (with geolocation)
by Henry Mayhew and Augustus Mayhew
London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 2, Boy Crossing-Sweepers and Tumblers (with geolocation)
London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 2, The Negro Crossing-Sweeper (with geolocation)
by Elise Johnson McDougald
"The Task of Negro Womanhood"
by Kelly Miller
"Howard: The National Negro University"
by Robert R. Moton
"Hampton-Tuskegee: Missioners of the Masses"
by T.N. Mukharji
A Visit to Europe, excerpts
by Bruce Nugent
"Sahdji"
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 J. A. Rogers
"Jazz at Home"
by Krupabai Satthianadhan
Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life
by Arthur A. Schomburg
"The Negro Digs Up His Past"
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 Sir Henry Morton Stanley (headnote available)
from Through the Dark Continent
by Robert Louis Stevenson (headnote available)
"The House of Temoana"
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Decolonizing the Mind: Native African Languages, excerpts
by John Jacob Thomas
Froudcity, excerpts
by Jean Toomer
Cane
"Carma," from Cane
"Fern"
by Frances Trollope (headnote available)
from "Domestic Manners of the Americans"
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw
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
"The Palm Porch"
Tropic Death
by Robert Wedderburn
The Horrors of Slavery
by Walter White
"The Paradox of Color"
by John Greenleaf Whittier (headnote available)
"The Hunters of Men"
"Massachusetts to Virginia"