THE NEGRO CARAVAN: Writings by American Negroes

Landmark Collection Of Black American Writing

THE NEGRO CARAVAN: Writings by American Negroes

Selected by Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, and Ulysses Lee, with works by Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, and more

(1941)

First printing of this anthology of works by Black Americans, from the 18th-century poetry of Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century essays of Alain Locke and much in between.

Very good plus.

Price: $750.00

THE NEGRO CARAVAN: Writings by American Negroes

"Anyone who attempts to teach Black literature without reading this book seriously should be driven from the classroom." John Henrik Clark, in Blockson

Charles Blockson notes that, on its publication in 1941, THE NEGRO CARAVAN was "the most important single volume of Afro-American writing ever published" (58). Its three editors assembled some of the most influential pieces by Black Americans through the 1940s, including songs, plays, narratives of enslaved people, poetry, essays, folk literature and more. Each section is accompanied by a critical introduction contextualizing the pieces in their wider genres and in Black history. THE NEGRO CARAVAN represents a major early effort at defining a canon of Black literature; this is an unusually nice copy.

Read more: Catalogue of the Blockson Afro-American Collection, item 5949; Charles L. Blockson, A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Influential Books By and About People of African Descent, item 77.

The Object

New York: The Dryden Press, (1941). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth boards with gilt and black lettering. No dust jacket. xviii, 1082 pages, including index. Owner name in pencil to front flyleaf, "Tyler Long." Binding with mild wear, a touch of dampstaining to lower spine. Leaves with a hint of toning and occasional edgewear. Firm.

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