Frederick Douglass & Alice Dunbar-Nelson 
7 best short stories – Black Authors 

Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories specials, a selection dedicated to a special subject, featuring works by noteworthy authors. The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest.

This edition is dedicated to Black Authors.

Black literature is a literary production in which the subject of the writing is the black people themselves. This cultural phenomena is very significant in countries dominated by white culture and that received forced immigrations from the slavery regime, such as the USA and Brazil.

Through black literature, black characters and authors recover their integrity as human beings, breaking the vicious cycle of racism, also rooted in literary practice.

In addition to short stories, this book also contains essays, biographical accounts, and poetry by pioneers of black literature, providing a rich and varied content.

This book contains the following texts:

Short Stories:
– Violets by Alice Dunbar-Nelson;
– The Boy and The Bayonet by Paul Laurence Dunbar;
– The Fortune-Teller by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;
– A Matter of Principle by Charles W. Chesnutt;
– The Two Offers by Frances Harper;
– A Bal Masqué by Alexandre Dumas;
– The New York Subway by Pauline E. Hopkins.

Bonus content:
– Industrial Education for the Negro by Booker T. Washington;
– My Escape from Slavery by Frederick Douglass;
– Bars Fight by Lucy Terry;
– On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley;
– An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York by Jupiter Hammon.

About the author

Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist.Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (21 June 1839 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 November 15, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South.Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 February 22, 1911) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer.Alexandre Dumas (24 July 1802 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French writer. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 August 13, 1930) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor.Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States.Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or 1818 February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.Lucy Terry (17331821), was an American settler and poet. Phillis Wheatley Peters (c.1753 December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry.Jupiter Hammon (October 17, 1711 ca. 1806) was an American writer who is known as a founder of African-American literature.