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   05 August 2026

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   1800s Black Statian Fiction 
   Growing up in the home of my parents I had from a child 1800s Black Literature. and I read it and it shaped my thinking towards media. One of the reasons why I don't get excited about white fiction largely is because I was raised with a more honest comprehension of Black Fiction, which most black people when children are not. And to be blunt, not sacred but secular. One of the things I realized as an adult is how religious many black homes are. Christianity/ISlam/Judaism/Buddhism/Vodun/Yoruba or other, Black people tend to be raised in a faith based home, so alot of literature involving Black people tend to encircle faith based living so relibious text/spiritual text/self help/biographical books... but fiction tends to not be on the shelf. I figured in the African American Literary Book club someone should place public variants of work that is freely available but indicative of Black People in the 1800s or before. 
    
   Negro Spirituals + Work Songs [Originally Predating the USA, the modern form comes from the circa 1865 variants of either, as whites successfully eliminated most record of black life from being created or if it was created]
   https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/498-negro-spirituals-work-songs/
   Bars Fight 1746 from Lucy Terry
   https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/348-bars-fight-from-lucy-terry/
   Hope Of Liberty 1829 + Poetical Works 1845 from George M Horton
   https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/485-george-m-horton-remembering-juneteenth/
   Le Mulâtre 1837 from Victor Séjour 
   https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/495-le-mul%C3%A2tre-from-victor-s%C3%A9jour-two-versions-split-by-an-essay/
   Clotel 1853 from William Well Brown
   https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/496-clotel-or-the-presidents-daughter-a-narrative-of-slave-life-in-the-united-states-by-william-well-brown/
   The Garies and their friends 1857 from Francis Johnson Webb
   https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/497-the-garies-and-thier-friends/
   Blake 1861 from Martin Delaney
   https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/494-weekly-%C2%A0anglo-african-and-%C2%A0the-pine-and-palm%C2%A0-excerpts-from-1861%E2%80%931862blake-or-the-huts-of-america-a-tale-of-the-mississippi-valley-the-southern-united-states-and-cuba-from-martin-delany/
   Shuffle ALong 1921 from Eubie Blake [Yes not 1800s and not the earliest Black stageplay, I have a book of early black stageplays, it hasn't been made electronic, but ]
   https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/478-my-search-for-shuffle-along/
    
   NOTE: the following are in my personal collection and I haven't seen their contents publicly available. 
   Les Cenelles [interesting essay: https://64parishes.org/entry/les-cenelles ; a book on the gens de colour : https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20554/20554-h/20554-h.htm ]
   Every Tongue Got To Confess [Collected by Zora Neale Hurston , a very informative and fun read, exposing many fables and tales of Black people pre war between the states]
   AMENDMENT: an interesting read
   Spiritual Folk songs about the USA  [ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59884/59884-h/59884-h.htm ]
    
   

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