NEGRO POETS
AND THEIR POEMS

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EMANCIPATION
By
Meta Warrick Fuller

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NEGRO POETS
AND THEIR POEMS

BY
ROBERT T. KERLIN
AUTHOR OF “THE VOICE OF THE NEGRO”

ILLUSTRATED


ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS, Inc.,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
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Copyright, 1923,
By
THE ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS, Inc.
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To the Black and Unknown Bards who gave to the world the pricelesstreasure of those “canticles of love and woe,” the camp-meetingSpirituals; more particularly, to those untaught singers of the oldplantations of the South, whose melodious lullabies to the babes of bothraces entered with genius-quickening power into the souls of Poe andLanier, Dunbar and Cotter: to them, for whom any monument in stone orbronze were but mockery, I dedicate this monument of verse, budded bythe children of their vision.

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