Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Two hundred years of black and white drama / James V. Hatch
  • The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) / William Wells Brown
  • Peculiar Sam, or The Underground Railroad (1879) / Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
  • Aunt Betsy's Thanksgiving (c.1914) / Katherine D. Chapman Tillman
  • Aftermath (1919) / Mary Burrill
  • Black Vaudeville (c.1920) / Butterbeans and Susie (Jodie and Susie Edwards)
  • The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923) / Willis Richardson
  • The First One (1927) / Zora Neale Hurston
  • Help Wanted (1929) / Joseph S. Mitchell
  • Tom-Tom (1932) / Shirley Graham
  • The Sharecropper (1932) / George A. Towns
  • Nails and Thorns (1933) / May Miller
  • The Shining Town (1937) / Owen Vincent Dodson
  • On Strivers Row (1938) / Abram Hill.