(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 Dion Boucicault
The Octoroon (search in COVE Texts)
by Willis Richardson
"Compromise: A Folk Play" (search in COVE Texts)
Poetry
by Lewis Alexander
"Enchantment" (search in COVE Texts)
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
"Heritage" (search in COVE Texts)
"Song" (search in COVE Texts)
by Louise Bennett
"Colonization in Reverse" (search in COVE Texts)
by Arna Bontemps
"The Day-Breakers" (search in COVE Texts)
by William Cowper
"The Negro’s Complaint" (search in COVE Texts)
by Countée Cullen
"A Brown Girl Dead" (search in COVE Texts)
"Fruit of the Flower" (search in COVE Texts)
"Harlem Wine" (search in COVE Texts)
"Heritage" (search in COVE Texts)
"In Memory of Colonel Charles Young" (search in COVE Texts)
"She of the Dancing Feet Sings" (search in COVE Texts)
"Tableau""To a Brown Boy" (search in COVE Texts)
"To a Brown Girl" (search in COVE Texts)
"Youth Sings a Song of Rosebud" (search in COVE Texts)
by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
"The Aboriginal Mother" (search in COVE Texts)
by Michael Madhusudan Dutt
"Sonnets" assorted (search in COVE Texts)
by Angelina Grimke
"The Black Finger" (search in COVE Texts)
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (headnote available)
"An Appeal to My Country Women" (search in COVE Texts)
"Free Labor" (search in COVE Texts)
"Learning to Read" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Slave Mother" (search in COVE Texts)
by Felicia Hemans (headnote available)
"I Dream of All Things Free" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Indian with His Dead Child" (search in COVE Texts)
"Indian Woman's Death-Song" (search in COVE Texts)
by Langston Hughes
"Dream Variation" (search in COVE Texts)
"An Earth Song" (search in COVE Texts)
"Harlem" (search in COVE Texts)
"I Too" (search in COVE Texts)
"Jazzonia" (search in COVE Texts)
"Minstrel Man" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (search in COVE Texts)
"Nude Young Dancer" (search in COVE Texts)
"Our Land" (search in COVE Texts)
"Poem" (search in COVE Texts)
"Song" (search in COVE Texts)
by E. Pauline Johnson
"The Cattle Thief" (search in COVE Texts)
by Georgia Douglas Johnson
"To Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Upon Hearing His" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Ordeal" (search in COVE Texts)
"Escape" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Riddle" (search in COVE Texts)
by Helen Johnson
"The Road" (search in COVE Texts)
by James Weldon Johnson
"The Creation" (search in COVE Texts)
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (search in COVE Texts)
"Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Ressurection Day" (search in COVE Texts)
"Youth" (search in COVE Texts)
by Rudyard Kipling
"The White Man's Burden" (search in COVE Texts)
by Henry LaBouchère
"The Brown Man's Burden" (search in COVE Texts)
by Juan Francisco Manzano
Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated (search in COVE Texts)
by Claude McKay
"Baptism" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Harlem Dancer" (search in COVE Texts)
"Like a Strong Tree" (search in COVE Texts)
"Negro Dancers" (search in COVE Texts)
"Russian Cathedral" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Tropics of New York" (search in COVE Texts)
"White Houses" (search in COVE Texts)
by Hannah More (headnote available)
"The Black Slave Trade" (search in COVE Texts)
"Slavery. A Poem" (search in COVE Texts)
by Hannah More and Eaglesfield Smith
"The Sorrows of Yamba; or, The Negro Woman’s Lamentation" (search in COVE Texts)
by John Newton
"Amazing Grace" (search in COVE Texts)
by Grace Nichols
"The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping" (search in COVE Texts)
by Thomas Pringle
"Afar in the Desert" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Hottentot" (search in COVE Texts)
"Makanna's Gathering" (search in COVE Texts)
by Mary Robinson (headnote available)
"The Negro Girl" (search in COVE Texts)
by Anne Spencer
"Lady, Lady" (search in COVE Texts)
by Henry David Thoreau (headnote available)
"Wait not till slaves pronounce the word" (search in COVE Texts)
by Jean Toomer
"Georgia Dusk" (search in COVE Texts)
"Song of the Son" (search in COVE Texts)
by Derek Walcott
"A Far Cry from Africa" (search in COVE Texts)
by Ann Yearsley (headnote available)
"A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade" (search in COVE Texts)
Prose
by Selim Aga/Agha
Africa Considered in Its Social and Political Condition (search in COVE Texts)
"A Trip Up the Congo or Zaire River" (search in COVE Texts)
"My Parentage and Early Career as a Slave" (search in COVE Texts)
by Anon.
"B'rer Rabbit Fools Buzzard" (search in COVE Texts)
The Woman of Color, A Tale (search in COVE Texts)
by Edward Wilmot Blyden
Liberia's Offering (search in COVE Texts)
by William Stanley Braithwaite
"The Negro in American Literature" (search in COVE Texts)
by Charles W. Chesnutt
The Marrow of Tradition (search in COVE Texts)
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 (search in COVE Texts)
by Dinah Craik
"The Half-Caste" (search in COVE Texts)
by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
from "from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species" (search in COVE Texts)
by Benjamin Drew (headnote available)
A North Side View of Slavery; The Refugee, or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada (search in COVE Texts)
by W. A. Domingo
"Gift of the Black Tropics" (search in COVE Texts)
by Frederick Douglass (headnote available)
"The Heroic Slave" (search in COVE Texts)
"Letter to the Editor of The Times" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro: Speech at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852" (search in COVE Texts)
Narrative of the LIfe of Frederick Douglass (search in COVE Texts)
by 
W.E.B. Du Bois
"The Negro Mind Reaches Out" (search in COVE Texts)
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (search in COVE Texts)
by Arthur Fauset
"American Negro Folk Literature" (search in COVE Texts)
by Jessie Fauset
"The Gift of Laughter" (search in COVE Texts)
by Rudolph Fisher
"The City of Refuge" (search in COVE Texts)
"Vestiges" (search in COVE Texts)
by E. Franklin Frazier
"Durham: Capital of the Black Middle Class" (search in COVE Texts)
by Benjamin Franklin (headnote available)
"Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" (search in COVE Texts)
by James Anthony Froude
The English in the West Indies, excerpts (search in COVE Texts)
by Montgomery Gregory
"The Drama of Negro Life" (search in COVE Texts)
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (search in COVE Texts)
by Melville J. Herskovits
"The Negro's Americanism" (search in COVE Texts)
by Zora Neale Hurston
"Characteristics of Negro Expression" (search in COVE Texts)
"Spunk" (search in COVE Texts)
by Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (search in COVE Texts)
by Charles S. Johnson
"The New Frontage on American Life" (search in COVE Texts)
by James Weldon Johnson
"Harlem: The Culture Capital" (search in COVE Texts)
by Elizabeth Keckley
Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (search in COVE Texts)
by Paul U. Kellogg
"The Negro Pioneers" (search in COVE Texts)
by Rudyard Kipling
"The Story of Muhammed Din" (search in COVE Texts)
"Without Benefit of Clergy" (search in COVE Texts)
by Mary Kirby
"Going to School in India" (search in COVE Texts)
"A Little About Caste" (search in COVE Texts)
by Nella Larsen
Passing (search in COVE Texts)
Told by Cugo Lewis (brought to America from West Coast Africa, 1859)
"T'appin" (search in COVE Texts)
by Richard Ligon
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (search in COVE Texts)
by Alain Locke
"The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Negro Spirituals" (search in COVE Texts)
"Negro Youth Speaks" (search in COVE Texts)
"The New Negro" (search in COVE Texts)
by Thomas Macaulay
"Minute on Indian Education" (search in COVE Texts)
by Juan Francisco Manzano
Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated [including significant prose sections] (search in COVE Texts)
by John Marrant (headnote availale)
from "A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black" (search in COVE Texts)
by Harriet Martineau (headnote availale)
from Society in America (search in COVE Texts)
by John Matheus
"Fog" (search in COVE Texts)
by Henry Mayhew
"Hindoo Beggar" (search in COVE Texts)
London Labour and the London Poor, No. 24, Of the Street-Sellers of Rhubarb and Spice, with geolocation (search in COVE Texts)
London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 3, Tom-tom Players, with geolocation (search in COVE Texts)
by Henry Mayhew and Augustus Mayhew
London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 2, Boy Crossing-Sweepers and Tumblers, with geolocation (search in COVE Texts)
London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 2, The Negro Crossing-Sweeper, with geolocation (search in COVE Texts)
by Elise Johnson McDougald
"The Task of Negro Womanhood" (search in COVE Texts)
by Kelly Miller
"Howard: The National Negro University" (search in COVE Texts)
by Robert R. Moton
"Hampton-Tuskegee: Missioners of the Masses" (search in COVE Texts)
by T.N. Mukharji
A Visit to Europe, excerpts (search in COVE Texts)
by Bruce Nugent
"Sahdji" (search in COVE Texts)
by Mary Prince
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself (search in COVE Texts)
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself, excerpt (search in COVE Texts)
by J. A. Rogers
"Jazz at Home" (search in COVE Texts)
by Krupabai Satthianadhan
Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life (search in COVE Texts)
by Arthur A. Schomburg
"The Negro Digs Up His Past" (search in COVE Texts)
by Mary Seacole
The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole (search in COVE Texts)
by Zadie Smith
"The Waiter's Wife" (search in COVE Texts)
by Cornelia Sorabji
Between the Twilights (search in COVE Texts)
Love and Life Behind the Purdah (search in COVE Texts)
by Wole Soyinka
"Telephone Conversation" (search in COVE Texts)
by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (headnote available)
from Through the Dark Continent (search in COVE Texts)
by Robert Louis Stevenson (headnote available)
"The House of Temoana" (search in COVE Texts)
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Decolonizing the Mind: Native African Languages, excerpts (search in COVE Texts)
by John Jacob Thomas
Froudcity, excerpts (search in COVE Texts)
by Jean Toomer
Cane (search in COVE Texts)
"Carma," from Cane (search in COVE Texts)
"Fern" (search in COVE Texts)
by Frances Trollope (headnote available)
from "Domestic Manners of the Americans" (search in COVE Texts)
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw (search in COVE Texts)
by Sojourner Truth (headnote available)
"Speech at the American Equal Rights Association", May 9–10, 1867 (search in COVE Texts)
by David Walker (headnote available)
"An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" (search in COVE Texts)
by Eric Walrond
"The Palm Porch" (search in COVE Texts)
Tropic Death (search in COVE Texts)
by Robert Wedderburn
The Horrors of Slavery (search in COVE Texts)
by Walter White
"The Paradox of Color" (search in COVE Texts)
by John Greenleaf Whittier (headnote available)
"The Hunters of Men" (search in COVE Texts)
"Massachusetts to Virginia" (search in COVE Texts)