The finely framed lines of Phillis Wheatley
will remain forever the anomaly of African-American literature in the English
colonial period. Slave narratives, exemplified in the "Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass," were more the order. By the early
1920's, more than 6,000 had been published. Week 12 addresses the
place of African-American letters in the early periods of American literature.
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