Authors
This woman was the first known African American poet, author of Poem on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.
Who is Phillis Wheatley Peters?
Hammon's 1760 poem "An Evening Thought" centers on this religious theme.
What is salvation/Christianity?
This 1850 law required that escaped enslaved people be returned to their enslavers, even if found in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Spirituals, secular songs, and folktales are part of this oral tradition.
What is the vernacular tradition?
He wrote Narrative of the Life in 1845 and became one of the most famous abolitionist orators.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs describes hiding in this space for seven years.
What is an attic/garret?
This post-Civil War period (1865-1877) sought to rebuild the South and extend rights to freedpeople.
What is Reconstruction?
This central theme unites Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley.
What is religion/Christianity?
This Jamaican-born poet became a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Claude McKay?
In The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois introduces this famous concept describing African American identity.
What is double consciousness?
This transatlantic system brought those like Olaudah Equiano across the ocean as a child.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Women like Harriet Jacobs, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Zora Neale Hurston emphasize the diversity of this theme.
What is gender and Black womanhood?
This journalist exposed lynching in her 1895 book, A Red Record.
Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
In How it feels to be colored me, Hurston writes, "I am not tragically_____."
What is colored?
These restrictive laws, passed in Southern States during Reconstruction, aimed to limit the freedom of formerly enslaved people.
What are Black codes?
This generic form connects Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Harriet Jacobs?
What is autobiography/(slave narrative can also count)?
Up from Slavery was published by this famous African American.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
In "The Petition of Belinda," Belinda Sutton asks the Massachusetts legislature for this.
What is a pension (compensation for her enslavement)?
This Harlem Renaissance concept, articulated by Du Bois, argued that a small elite of educated African Americans would uplift the race.
What is the Talented Tenth?
This common theme connects the events seen during Reconstruction, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Frederick Douglass.
What is racial violence?