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Title Author Year
The Dawn’s Awake! Otto Leland Bohanan 1922
In Praise of Okra January Gill O’Neil 2009
Hatred Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Fifty Years James Weldon Johnson 1922
The New Day Fenton Johnson 1922
Free Labor Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1857
The Slave Auction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Never Again Pamela Sneed 2020
Song of the Son Jean Toomer 1923
Enslaved Claude McKay 1922
We are Marching Carrie Law Morgan Figgs 1920
Emancipation Priscilla Jane Thompson 1907
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
The Slave Mother Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
three Black poems from August Danez Smith 2021
To Sir Toby Philip Freneau 1795
To the White Fiends Claude McKay 1922
This Body Renée Watson 2019
My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral Mahogany L. Browne 2024

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