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The following tables presents a partial listing of Black writers, poets and playwrights
(African Americans and those of African descent) who created, shaped and influenced
Black literature in the United States and the world from 1711 to the present.

Table 1: The Beginning --

HTML SOURCE PAGE: Jupiter Hammon to Oscar Micheaux

Lucy Terry James Albert Ukawsaw Olaudah Phyllis

Jupiter Hammon
Prince Gronnisaw Equiano Wheatley

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Quobna Ottabah Mary Prince aka
Richard Allen John Marrant Jarena Lee
Cugoano Asa Asa

Daniel
George Moses James P.Beckworth aka Alexander
Sojourner Truth Alexander
Horton Deadeye Dick Dumas
Payne

Fredrick
Martin Delany Harriet E.Jacobs William Wells Brown Bethany Veney
Douglass

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 Antonio Francis Ellen Watkins Harriet E.
Harriet Tubman Frank J. Webb
Goncalves Dias Harper Wilson

Henry McNeal Adah Isaacs John Willis Mary Eliza

Amanda Smith
Turner Menken Menard Tucker Lambert

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 Joaquim De Josephine St.
Antonio Maceo Castro Alves Joaquim Nabuco
Assis Pierre Ruffin

Octavia Rogers George Clinton Gertrude Bustill Timothy

Lucy Parsons
Albert Rowe Mossell Thomas Fortune

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 Booker T. Samuel Alfred Charles
Ambrose E. Gonzales Annie L. Burton
Washington Beadle W.Chesnutt

Joseph Seamon Susie King

Pauline Hopkins Horace Cayton
Cotter Taylor
Hallie Q. Brown

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 William Edward
Carrie Williams James Edwin
Ida B. Wells Lena Doolin Mason Burghardt
Clifford Campbell
DuBois

Olivia Ward James D. Paul Lawrence

James Weldon Johnson Delilah Beasley
Bush Corrothers Dunbar

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 William
Charlotta A. Alice Dunbar
Christopher Carter G. Woodson Jose de Alencar
Bass Nelson
Handy

Effie Waller Jean Price- Georgia Douglas William Stanley Angelina Weld
Smith March Johnson Braithwaite Grimke

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 Ethel Caution- Charlotte Hawkins Jessie Redmon
Anne Spencer Oscar Micheaux
Davis Brown Fauset

We at Asili recognize that these tables are incomplete. We invite you to send us pictures, birth
data and web data of any writer that we have inadvertantly missed. This page will be up for a
considerable amount of time and we will make corrections if you point them out to us. Contact
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