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African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927 (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joan Rita (Editor) Sherman, Langston Hughes [Contributor], Phillis Wheatley Peters, James Madison Bell, George Moses Horton, Joshua Mccarter Simpson, Alfred Islay Walden, James Monroe Whitfield, Joan R. Sherman (Author, Dover Thrift Editions, Contributor-Joshu Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-486-29604-0 / 0486296040 ISBN-13: 978-0-486-29604-3 / 9780486296043 In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20t |