Electronic Web Sources for Early American Literature

African American

Excerpts from "The Interesting Narrative of Olauda Equiano"
John Wesley, Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774)
A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
Phillis Wheatley, An elegy, sacred to the memory of the great divine, the Reverend and learned Dr. Samuel Cooper Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
Poems Phillis Wheatley
Renascence Editions
A Voice of Her Own, Phillis Wheatley
Library of Congress
Documenting the American South
Slavery and the Making of America (PBS)
Slavery and the Making of America (PBS) Online Resources