Research Guides: AAS 267 African American Literature: Websites & Primary Sources

African Amerian Literature & History (National Humanities Center) 1609-2008

"Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and Freedom Primary Source from Houghton Library" (Harvard)
Spans late 1700s-early 1900s. Includes Black and Women's Voices, Memoirs and Slave Narratives, Colored Conventions Movement, Military Papers, Letters from Abolitionists.
Frederick Douglass's Narrative: Myth of the Happy Slave
The Power of Poetry (blogs)--National Museum of African American History & Culture
--Pre-Civil Wart to Reconstruction
--Mothers of Africa
--The New Negro Renaissance to Black Arts Movement
--Post 1970s to Contemporary Performance Poetry
--National Poetry Month
National Museum of African American History Colllections --Literature
Black Lives Matter
Sojourner Truth Project
Universal Hip Hop Museum
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