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| Introduction | |
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| The Colonial Period 1746-1800 | |
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| Excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself | |
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| On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
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| On Imagination, S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works | |
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| To His Excellency General Washington | |
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| Letter to Samson Occom | |
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| Bars Fight, August 28, 1746 | |
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| An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries | |
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| The Lover's Farewell | |
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| On Liberty and Slavery | |
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| Letter | |
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| The Ante-Bellum Period 1800-1865 | |
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| From Appeal in Four Articles, Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World | |
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| From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself | |
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| The Escape; or, A Leap For Freedom | |
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| From Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North: Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There | |
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| From Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted | |
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| The Two Offers | |
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| The Slave Mother. Ethiopia | |
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| From The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke | |
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| From The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself | |
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| Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention The Reconstruction Period 1865-1900 | |
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| From Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House | |
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| The Goophered Grapevine | |
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| From Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice | |
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| From A Voice From The South: By A Black Woman of The South | |
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| Sympathy | |
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| We Wear the Mask | |
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| Frederick Douglass. When Malindy Sings | |
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| The Colored Soldiers | |
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| The Harlem Renaissance Period 1900-1940 | |
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| From The Souls of Black Folk | |
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| From Up From Slavery | |
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| O Black and Unknown Bards | |
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| The Creation. From | |