My Soul Has Grown Deep : Classics of early African-American literature / [compiled by] John Edgar Wideman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wideman, John Edgar, compiler.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1270, [10] pages : portrait, music ; 24 cm

Distribution:

London : Running Press,

Other Title:

Classics of early African-American literature

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Running Press, [2001]

Contents:

Introduction

Richard Allen (1760-1831) Biographical Essay. The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) Biographical Essay. Selections from Poems on Various Subjects

Jarena Lee (1783-?) Biographical Essay. Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee

Olaudah Equiano (?-1797) Biographical Essay. The Life of Olaudah Equiano

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) Biographical Essay. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Biographical Essay. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Nat Love (1854-1921) Biographical Essay. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) Biographical Essay. Up from Slavery

Ida B. Wells (1864-1931) Biographical Essay. A Red Record

W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963) Biographical Essay. The Souls of Black Folk

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) Biographical Essay. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) Biographical Essay. Lyrics of Lowly Life.

Notes:

"Author photo courtesy of Stephen Long/University of Massachusetts. Cover illustration courtesy of Ed Young/Corbis. Cover and interior design by Brooke Koven, Bill Jones and Serrin Bodmer. Typography by Scribe."--Title page verso.

"The texts in this book are based on the original printed editions. We have made no attempt to modernize the authors' own distinct usage, spelling, or punctuation, or to make the texts consistent with each other in this regard."--A Note on the Texts.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copies have dustjackets retained.

Running Press copies are "1" printing.

ISBN:

0762410353

9780762410354

OCLC:

48024009

Online:

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