African-American literature
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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who became the first African American
Phillis Wheatley (c.1753–1784)
Frederick Douglass
Portrait of W.E.B. DuBois, photographed in 1918
Langston Hughes, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936
Charles W. Chesnutt
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an African-American author, essayist, political activist, and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in
Chesnutt at age 40
Chesnutt's library at his Cleveland home
Title page for The Conjure Woman (1899)
First edition cover of The House Behind the Cedars (1900)