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| Introduction | |
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| Courage | |
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| "Vashti" | |
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| from Days of Grace | |
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| from Biography of an American Bondman, by His Daughter, Josephine Brown | |
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| "Harriet Tubman" | |
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| from Warriors Don't Cry | |
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| from Rosa Parks: My Story | |
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| "If We Must Die" | |
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| "Ar'n't I a Woman?" | |
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| "Coping: A Letter to a Child in a Difficult Time" | |
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| Diligence | |
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| from Up from Slavery | |
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| "The Seedling" | |
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| "Mother to Son" | |
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| "The Ant Story" | |
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| from Laughing in the Dark | |
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| "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" | |
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| from What the Negro Wants | |
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| "The Black Runner" | |
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| from An Oral History with Miss Oseola McCarty | |
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| from A Colored Woman in a White World | |
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| Faith | |
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| from Gifted Hands | |
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| from God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man | |
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| "Guide My Feet" | |
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| "People Who Could Fly" | |
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| from In the Spirit | |
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| "There Is a Balm in Gilead" | |
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| "The Woman with an Issue of Blood" | |
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| from Quicksand | |
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| "Stand by Me" | |
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| "how i got ovah II/It Is Deep II" | |
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| Forbearance | |
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| from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
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| from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | |
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| "Strong Men" | |
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| from Coming of Age in Mississippi | |
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| "Jesus Before the High Priest" | |
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| "Sympathy" | |
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| "Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho" | |
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| from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself | |
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| "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" | |
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| Forgiveness | |
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| "Amazing Grace" | |
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| "The Partners" | |
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| from Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone | |
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| "After the Storm" | |
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| "The Unforgiving Slave" | |
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| Honesty | |
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| from Up from Slavery | |
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| "Jack in the Pot" | |
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| from The Lady, the Melody, and the Word | |
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| "Mama's Missionary Money" | |
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| "The River Demon" | |
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| Love | |
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| "My Dungeon Shook" | |
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| "How the Slaves Helped Each Other" | |
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| from Kinship | |
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| "Black Baby" | |
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| I Corinthians 13 | |
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| from Along This Way | |
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| from The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen | |
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| "Aunt Zurletha" | |
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| "Those Winter Sundays" | |
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| Loyalty | |
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| "The Ibo Landing Story," as told to Marian Barnes | |
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| from My American Journey | |
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| from Sarah Phillipps | |
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| Ruth and Naomi | |
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| from The Lesson of Tolerance | |
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| from A Lesson Before Dying | |
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| "Jubilee Thanksgiving Address" | |
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| Prudence | |
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| from The Street | |
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| "An Hymn to the Evening" | |
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| "We Real Cool" | |
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| from Speaking Truth to Power | |
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| from The Prisoner's Wife | |
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| from In Search of Satisfaction | |
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| from Unafraid of the Dark | |
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| from Taps for a Jim Crow Army | |
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| Responsibility | |
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| from Black Ice | |
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| "Frederick Douglass" | |
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| from If I Had a Hammer | |
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| from An American Story | |
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| "Parable of the Talents" | |
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| "Self-Reliance" | |
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| Service | |
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| from Having Our Say | |
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| "I Sit and Sew" | |
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| from Black Women in White America | |
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| "If I Can Help Somebody as I Pass Along" | |
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| "Salt, Sauce, and Spice, Onion Leaves, Pepper, and Drippings" | |
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| from The Measure of Our Success | |
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| "Go Work in My Vineyard" | |
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| from An Oral History with Miss Oseola McCarty | |
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| Trustworthiness | |
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| "Mammie's Form at the Post Office" | |
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| "The Pocketbook Game" | |
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| "The Clay Pots" | |
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| "Sanctuary" | |
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| Jonathan and David | |
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| "Letter to Frederick Douglass" | |
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| Acknowledgments and Sources | |