The 18th (1701 - 1800) Century 

Poets

Phillis Wheatley

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The 19th (1801 - 1900) Century 

Autobiography

Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 –  1897)

• • Harriet Jacobs – Wikipedia
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
  • Works by Harriet Jacobs at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly;  1818 – 1907)

• • Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley – Wikipedia
  • Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House [At Google Books]
  • Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House [At Documenting the American South]

Cookbooks

Abby Fisher (1831 – ?)

• • Abby Fisher – Wikipedia
  • Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
  • What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking
  • What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking – Wikipedia 

Malinda Russell (ca. 1812 – ?) 

• • The Legacy of Malinda Russell
  • Malinda Russell – Wikipedia
  • Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (1866)

Fiction & Essay

Julia C. Collins

• • Julia C. Collins – Wikipedia
  • “Recovering 19th-Century American Women Writers Julia C. Collins,” – blogs.stockton.edu

The 19th (1801 - 1900) Century Cont.

Memoir

Elizabeth (1765?-1866)

• • Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman

Novelists

Hannah Bond, pen name Hannah Crafts (b.ca.1830s)

• • Hannah Bond – Wikipedia
  • The Bondwoman's Narrative – Wikipedia

Sarah E. Farro (1855 - )

• • Sarah E. Farro AALBC.com (African American Literature Book Club)
  • Sarah E. Farro – Wikipedia
  • True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life

Amelia E. Johnson (1858–1922) - writer of novels, short fiction and poetry,

• • Johnson, Amelia E. (1858–1922) in The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
  • Amelia E. Johnson – Wikipedia
  • Clarence and Corinne, Or, God's Way
  • The Hazeley Family

Harriet E. Wilson (1825 – 1900) 

• • Harriet E. Wilson African American Author Biography
  • Harriet E. Wilson – Wikipedia
  • Our Nig

Poet

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825 – 1911)

• • About Frances Ellen Watkins Harper | Academy of American – Poet.org
  • Works – Poet.org
  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper – Literary Ladies Guide

Writer

Sarah Jane Woodson Early

• • Sarah Jane Woodson Early: The first African American woman professor
  • Sarah Woodson Early – Monticello.org

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