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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.
From the mid-19th-century American movement: poetry and philosophy concerned with self-reliance, independence from modern technology [39] Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau: Realism: The mid-19th-century movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns [40]
Anti-Tom literature consists of the 19th century pro-slavery novels and other literary works written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Also called plantation literature , these writings were generally written by authors from the Southern United States .
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century American writers. It includes 19th-century American writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist.She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America.. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.
Historically, Jefferson's household was known to include numerous mixed-race slaves, and there were rumors since the early 19th century that he had children with a slave, Sally Hemings. In 1826 Jefferson freed five mixed-race slaves in his will; most historians now believe that two brothers, Madison and Eston Hemings , were among his four ...
Maria Stewart was the first American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men, women, both Black and white (termed a "promiscuous" audience during the early 19th century). [4] She was also the first African American woman to lecture on women's rights , focusing particularly on the rights of Black women, religion, and social justice.
The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925) is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC, and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance. [1]