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Grace Abounding Additional Readings

As comprehensive as Grace Abounding is, no single anthology can possibly do justice to the wealth of African-American literature, music, and art. Therefore, below are additional resources in PDF format that you can print and distribute to your students or assign as resources for student papers and research projects.

 

Additional Selections for African-American Studies

Additional Reading

The Spirituals

 Barnes A - Negro Art and America

 Amazing Grace

 Bontemps A - A Southern Mansion

 Buked and Scorned

 Brown WW - Clotelle

 Deep River

 Chesnutt CW - Hot Foot Hannibal

 Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?

 Chesnutt CW - The March of Progress

 Don't Be Weary, Traveler

 Chesnutt CW - The Partners

 Go Down Moses

 Clifton L - climbing

 I Must Walk My Lonesome Valley

 Clifton L - i am accused of tending to the past

 Joshua Fit de Battle of Jerico

 Corrothers J - The Road to the Bow

 Master Going to Sell Us Tomorrow

 Domingo WA - The Tropics in New York

 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

 Douglass F - My Escape from Slavery

 Oh Freedom

 Douglass F - The Color Line

 Run, Mary, Run

 Douglass F - The Future of the Colored Race

 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

 Dove R - The Fish in the Stone

 Swing Low Sweet Chariot

 Du Bois WEB - Criteria of Negro Art

 There Is a Balm in Gilead

 Du Bois WEB - The Freedmans Bureau

 This Little Light of Mine

 Du Bois WEB - The Souls of Black Folk

 This Train

 Du Bois WEB - Of the Training of Black Men

 Wade in the Water

 Dunbar PL - Mr Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker

 We'll Understand It By and By

 Dunbar PL - Emancipation

 When the Saints Go Marching In

 Dunbar PL - The Paradox

 

 Fauset J - Oriflamme

 

 Fauset J - Dead Fires

 

 Fisher R - The South Lingers On

 

 Hammon J - Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley

 

 Herskovits MJ - The Dilemma of Social Pattern

 

 Hurston ZN - Spunk

 

 Johnson F - Children of the Sun

 

 Johnson F - The New Day

 

 Johnson H - A Missionary Brings...

 

 Johnson JW - O Southland!

 

 Johnson JW - The Making of Harlem

 

 McDougald E - The Double Task

 

 McKay C - Harlem Shadows

 

 Redmond E - Consider Lonliness as These Things

 Toomer J - Becky

 

 Toomer J - People

 

 Toomer J - Song of the Son

 

 Turner N - The Confessions of Nat Turner

 

 Walcott DA - A City's Death by Fire

 

 Washington BT - The Awakening of the Negro

 

 Washington BT - The Case of the Negro

 

 Washington BT - Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance

 Wheatley P - Hymn to Humanity