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African-American Poetry
African-American Poetry is a new library resource for literary scholars and  researchers in ethnic studies, linguistics, women's studies, black literary heritage, and comparative studies. The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry's 'Bars Fights', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is recorded.

Included are 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, searchable by keyword, first line/title, poet, gender, period, and year.The poetry explores a multitude of topics, including abolition, children, civil rights, dreams, education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty, political issues, prejudice, and slavery. The variety of poem types is equally broad. The database includes allegories, broadsides, children's poems, elegiac poems, epics, hymns, odes, patriotic poems, and sonnets.