CHAPTER I

THE PRESENT-DAY NEGRO HERITAGE OF SONG 1

I. Untaught Melodies: Folk Song 4

1. The Spirituals 6

2. The Seculars 12

II. The Earlier Poetry of Art 20

1. Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley 20

2. Charles L. Reason 24

3. George Moses Horton 25

4. Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper 26

5. James Madison Bell and Albery A. Whitman 32

6. Paul Laurence Dunbar 37

7. J. Mord Allen 48