Narratives
Wheatley’s primary audience consisted of this social group she had to persuade.
Wealthy white Christians
This character is known for using intelligence and deception to survive stronger enemies.
Brer Rabbit
Which author wrote “It is no more harm for you to kill a man, who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water…”
David Walker
These rhymes often framed as songs feature heroes such as John Henry, Railroad Bill and Po Lazarus
Work Songs
1789 marks the publication of this narrative
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Published in 1845, this work uses firsthand experience to challenge pro-slavery ideology and assert Black intellectual authority.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
This folktale centers on enslaved people gaining the ability to fly
All God's Chillun Have Wings
Which author wrote “I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.”
Frederick Douglass
The hero from this story survived drowning and ended up on Broadway, one-third drunk
Shine and the Titanic
Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America, Written in Boston, State of Massachusetts is published when?
September 28, 1829.
The first African American woman to publish a book of poetry in 1773.
Phillis Wheatley
This iconic writer of the Harlem Renaissance wrote about folk tales in her book Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston
Which author wrote “He told me I was his property; that I must be subject to his will in all things.”
Harriet Jacobs
This singer sang "Hound Dog" first
Big Mama Thornton
This 1861 narrative centers on gendered experiences of slavery.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?
Unlike Douglass, this writer ultimately achieves freedom by purchasing it.
Olaudah Equiano
Brer Rabbit belongs to this literary archetype common in African and African descended folklore.
the trickster?
Which author wrote “Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.”
Phillis Wheatley
This blues song features this lyric “The gypsy woman told my mother
Before I was born
You got a boy child comin’
Gonna be a son of a gun…”
Hoochie Coochie
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is published what year?
1845
Which writer hides in a garret/attic space for nearly seven years to avoid capture.
Harriet Jacobs
This activity defines the folktale “Big Talk.”
story telling
Which author wrote “Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles…”
Sojurner Truth
Harriet Tubman became associated with this spiritual
Go Down Moses
This slave rebellion narrative was recorded in 1831.
Nat Turner's Rebellion