An Introduction to Black Literature in America: From 1746 to the PresentLindsay Patterson Publishers Agency, 1976 - 302 pages |
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Page 14
... never tasted any such liquor before . Soon after this , the blacks who brought me on board went off and left me abandoned to despair . I now saw myself deprived of all chance of returning to my native country , or even the least glimpse ...
... never tasted any such liquor before . Soon after this , the blacks who brought me on board went off and left me abandoned to despair . I now saw myself deprived of all chance of returning to my native country , or even the least glimpse ...
Page 178
... never varied . It was al- ways Prince Charming and the Sleeping Beauty , but no two presentations were ever the same . Miss H. Belle LaPrade , our sixth - grade teacher , rewrote the script every season , and it was never like anything ...
... never varied . It was al- ways Prince Charming and the Sleeping Beauty , but no two presentations were ever the same . Miss H. Belle LaPrade , our sixth - grade teacher , rewrote the script every season , and it was never like anything ...
Page 252
... never known it and it was the same way with blues singers like Bottom . They could go anywhere , have any price they could name and when they shouted about hard times the people didn't cry for laughing . Now that was my old man saying ...
... never known it and it was the same way with blues singers like Bottom . They could go anywhere , have any price they could name and when they shouted about hard times the people didn't cry for laughing . Now that was my old man saying ...
Contents
Introduction Lindsay Patterson | 5 |
A Plan of Peace Office for the United States Benjamin Banneker | 17 |
Poetry | 27 |
Copyright | |
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