About African-American Poetry

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Provides nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Based upon the bibliography of William French et al., Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources (Gale Research, 1979).
First editions used whenever possible; later editions were selected if they were more inclusive.
Where poems appeared in their original dialect in an earlier edition and standardized in a later edition, both forms have been included for comparison purposes.
Poems originally published in periodicals have also been included.