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1. Middle Passage/Graveyards. FromThe Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano. "Middle Passage," Robert Hayden. "Ark of Bones," Henry Dumas. FromBeloved, Toni Morrison. FromMiddle Passage, Charles Johnson. FromJoe Turner's Come and Gone, August Wilson. "Homecoming," Everett Hoagland. "Goree," Everett Hoagland. "Dust," Everett Hoagland. FromThe Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois. "A Death Song," Paul Laurence Dunbar. "A Brown Girl Dead," Countee Cullen. FromBlack Thunder, Arna Bontemps. FromDust Tracks on a Road, Zora Neale Hurston. "Looking for Zora," Alice Walker. "Burial," Alice Walker. "View from Rosehill Cemetery," Alice Walker. FromA Gathering of Old Men, Ernest Gaines. FromDaughters of the Dust, Julie Dash. 2. The Influence of the Spirituals. "God's Going to Trouble the Water." "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?" "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." "Steal Away to Jesus." "An Evening Thought," Jupiter Hammon. "On being Brought from Africa to America," Phillis Wheatley. "Letter to Samson Occum," Phillis Wheatley. "Go Down, Moses." From "Moses: A Story of the Nile," Frances E. W. Harper. "An Ante-Bellum Sermon," Paul Laurence Dunbar. "God's Gonna Set This World on Fire." "Dry Bones." "O Black and Unknown Bards," James Weldon Johnson. "The Judgement Day," James Weldon Johnson. "Runagate Runagate" by Robert Hayden. "A Change Is Gonna Come," Sam Cooke. "Final Hour," Lauryn Hill. "Walk Together Children." FromYoungblood, John Oliver Killens. FromA Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley. "When We'll Worship Jesus," Amiri Baraka. "Jesus Was Crucified," Carolyn Rodgers. "It Is Deep," Carolyn Rodgers. "There's No Hiding Place Down There.&re
