Individual poems
Several Black American poets of this era are as yet known for individual poems only.
- "Bars Fight" by Lucy Terry, c. 1730-1821. Read this poem in print.
- "The Grave of the Slave" and "An Appeal to Women" by Sarah Louisa Forten, 1814-83. Read these poems in print.
- Poems by the group of Louisiana writers of color known as Les Cenelles. Read these in print.
- "Hope and Confidence" by Charles L. Reason, 1818-93. Read this poem in print | electronically.
- "Toussaint L'Ouverture" and "Self-Mastery" by Henrietta Cordelia Wray, 1852-1916. Read these poems online | in print.
