This page contains a list of authors group by the time period of their birth. This list includes authors non-American authors as well in anticipation of expanding the scope of the project beyond the United States to include wider diasporic writers.
| LNAME | FNAME | MName(s) | NameNotes | * | † | Sex | PoB | Source | Floruit |
| Allen | Richard | 1760 | 1831 | M | Delaware | Boyd | 1794 | ||
| ar-Rahman | Abd | Likely idem to ibn Sori | c. 1790 | unk. | M | Morocco | Boyd | ||
| Ball | Charles | ne Charles Gross | 1780 | unk. | M | Maryland | W | 1837 | |
| Banneker | Benjamin | 1731 | 1806 | M | Maryland | W | 1790s | ||
| Cuffe | John | c. 1755 | unk | M | Massachusetts | Boyd | |||
| Cugoano | Ottobah | aka John Stuart | c. 1757 | p. 1791 | M | West Indies/England | Carretta | ||
| Elaw | Zilpha | 1790 | 1873 | F | Pennsylvania | Wf | 1846 | ||
| Equiano | Olaudah | 1745 | 1790 | M | Benin | A | 1789 | ||
| Moses | Grandy | 1786 | unk | M | North Carolina | W | |||
| Gronniosaw | Ukawsaw | aka James Albert | 1710 | 1775 | M | Bornu Empire | Boyd | ||
| Hall | Prince | c. 1735 | 1807 | M | Massachusetts | Boyd | |||
| Hammon | Briton | 1730 | 1760 | M | Massachusetts | A | |||
| Hammon | Jupiter | 1711 | 1806 | M | New York | A | |||
| Haynes | Lemuel | 1753 | 1833 | M | Connecticut | Boyd | |||
| Horton | George | Moses | 1798 | 1867 | M | North Carolina | A | ||
| ibn Said | Omar | 1770 | 1864 | M | West Africa | Other | |||
| ibn Sori | Abdulrahman | Ibrahim | 1762 | 1829 | M | Guinea | W | ||
| Jackson | Rebecca | Cox | 1795 | 1871 | F | Pennsylvania | A | ||
| Jea | John | 1773 | unk. | M | Nigeria | Other | |||
| Jones | Absalom | 1746 | 1818 | M | Delaware | Other | |||
| Lee | Jarena | 1783 | 1864 | F | New Jersey | A | |||
| Marrant | John | 1755 | 1791 | M | South Carolina | A | |||
| Prince | Mary | Gardner | 1788 | unk. | F | Bermuda | A | ||
| Prince | Nancy | 1799 | 1856 | F | Massachusetts | Wf | |||
| Prince | Lucy | Terry | c. 1730 | 1821 | F | Massachusetts | A | ||
| Sancho | Ignatius | 1729 | 1780 | M | Atlantic Ocean | W | |||
| Steward | Austin | 1793 | 1860 | M | New York | Boyd | |||
| Truth | Sojourner | nee Isablla Baumfree | 1797 | 1883 | F | New York | A | ||
| Turner | Nat | 1800 | 1831 | M | Virginia | Boyd | |||
| Unknown | Africanus | Pseudonym | fl. 1790 | unk. | M | Philadelphia | Other | ||
| Unknown | Belinda | 1717 | unk. | F | Massachusetts | Boyd | |||
| Unknown | Cato | Likely pseudonym | fl. 1781 | unk. | M | Connecticut | Other | ||
| Unknown | Old Elizabeth | 1766 | unk. | F | Maryland | Boyd | |||
| Walker | David | 1785 | 1830 | M | North Carolina | A | |||
| Wheatley | Phillis | 1753 | 1784 | F | Massachusetts |
Key
LNAME = Last Name
FNAME = First Name
MNAME(s) = Middle Name(s)
* = Year of Birth
† = Year of Death
Sex = per se nota
PoB = Place of Birth
Source = Biographic source
Floruit = Period of writing
