2610 William Wells Brown (1815-1884) 2612 from Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine

2612	Chapter II, The Negro Sale

2614	Chapter X, The Quadroon's Home

2616	Chapter XI, To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow a Slave

2618	Chapter XVIII, A Slave-Hunting Parson

2621 Herman Melville (1819-1891) 2625 Bartleby, the Scrivener

2651 The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids

2651	I, The Paradise of Bachelors

2658	II, The Tartarus of Maids

2669 Benito Cereno 2727 Billy Budd, Sailor

2785 Hawthorne and His Mosses

2798 from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

2798	The Portent (1859)

2798	A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight

2799 The Maldive Shark 2800 from Timoleon

2800

Monody

2800

Art

2801 Alice Cary (1820-1871)

2803 from Clovernook, or Recollections of our Neighborhood in the West, First Series

2803

Preface

2804 from Clovernook, or Recollections of our Neighborhood

in the West, Second Series

2804	Uncle Christopher's

2819	Conclusion

2822 Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902) 2823 Lemorne Versus Huell

2836 Rebecca Harding Davis, 1831-1910 2838 Life in the Iron-Mills

2864 The Emergence of American Poetic Voices

2866 Songs and Ballads 2868 Songs of the Slaves

2868	Lay Dis Body Down

2869	Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Had

2869	Deep River

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