African American Writers (Bookshelf)

An African American (also Afro-American) is a person in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa and Saharan. Many African Americans possess European, Native American or Asian ancestry as well. In the United States the term is generally used for those of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, and not, for example, for those of European colonial ancestry, such as whites or White South African-European ancestry.

—Excerpted from African American on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

Bibb, Henry, 1815-1854

• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself 

Brown, William Wells, 1816?-1884

• The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings 
• Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States 
• Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter 
• Clotel; or, the President's Daughter 
• The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave 
• Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met 

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932

• The Colonel's Dream 
• The Conjure Woman 
• Frederick Douglass: A Biography 
• The House Behind the Cedars 
• The Marrow of Tradition 
• The Negro Problem  (with various others)
• The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays 

Du Bois, W. E. B., 1868-1963

• The Conservation of Races 
• Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil 
• The Negro 
• The Negro in the South  (with Booker T. Washington)
• The Negro Problem  (with various others)
• The Quest of the Silver Fleece 
• The Souls of Black Folk 
  The Souls of Black Folk  (read by toriasuncle)
• The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 

Douglass, Frederick, 1817-1895

• Abolition Fanaticism in New York 
• Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave 
• Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction  (from Collected Articles) (read by computer voice)
• John Brown 
• My Bondage and My Freedom 
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 

Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar, 1823-1915

• Shadow and Light: An Autobiography 

Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955

• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole 

Hughes, Louis, 1832 - ?

• Thirty Years a Slave 

Jacobs, Harriet Ann, 1813-1897

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself 

Steward, Austin, 1793 - 1860

• Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman 

Still, William, 1821 - 1902

• The Underground Railroad 

Thompson, Charles, 1833 - ?

• Biography of a Slave; Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson 

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

• The Future of the American Negro 
• The Negro in the South  (with W. E. B. Du Bois)
• The Negro Problem  (with various others)
• Up from Slavery: An Autobiography 

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931

• Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics 
• The Red Record; Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States 
• Southern Horrors; Lynch Law in All Its Phases 

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784

• Religious and Moral Poems