The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (1918)

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The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (1918)
by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Preface

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This is the first edition of 1918.

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THE NEGRO IN
LITERATURE AND ART

PHILLIS WHEATLEY

The Negro
in Literature and Art

in the United States

BY

BENJAMIN BRAWLEY

Author of “A Short History of the American Negro,” “History of Morehouse College,” and “Richard Le Gallienne: A Study of His Poetry”

NEW YORK

DUFFIELD & COMPANY

1918

Copyright, 1918, by

Duffield & Co.

TO MY FATHER

EDWARD MacKNIGHT BRAWLEY

WITH THANKS FOR SEVERE TEACHING
AND STIMULATING CRITICISM

CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
	Preface	xi
I.	The Negro Genius	3
II.	Phillis Wheatley	10
III.	Paul Laurence Dunbar	33
IV.	Charles W. Chesnutt	45
V.	W. E. Burghardt Du Bois	50
VI.	William Stanley Braithwaite	56
VII.	Other Writers	65
VIII.	Orators.—Douglass and Washington	83
IX.	The Stage	97
X.	Painters.—Henry O. Tanner	103
XI.	Sculptors.—Meta Warrick Fuller	112
XII.	Music	125
	Appendix:
	1. The Negro in American Fiction	145
	2. Study of Bibliography	160
	Index	175

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