- Africanus - the anonym of an advocate for the humanity of the black race who wrote several responses to "Rusticus" in the Gazette of the United States
Africanus (1790) [Letter of Africanus] Gazette of the United States March 03, 1790, Page 372 [Library of Congress]
Africanus (1790) [Letter of Africanus] Gazette of the United-States. March 06, 1790, Page 376 [Library of Congress]
- Allen, Richard. (See Jones, Absalom, etc.)
- Cato (1781) Letter of Cato and Petition by “the negroes who obtained freedom by the late act,” in Postscript to the Freeman’s Journal, September 21, 1781.
- Hammon, Briton (1760) A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon. Boston : Green & Russell [Library of Congress]
- Hammon, Jupiter. (1806) An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York. New York : Samuel Wood. [Library of Congress]
- Jones, Absalom & Allen, Richard (1794) A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793 : and a refutation of some censures thrown upon them in some late publications. Philadelphia : William Woodward. [Library of Congress]
- Marrant (Morant), John. (1785) A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant A Black... London : Gilbert and Plummer [Archive.org]
- Prince, Lucy Terry (1746) Bars Fight
Holland, Josiah Gilbert. History of Western Massachusetts, Vol. II pt. III. Springfield: Samuel Bowles and Company, 1855. p. 360 [Archive.org]
This poem was transmitted orally from circa 1746 to its first printing in the above citation in 1855.
Sheldon, George "Negro Slavery in Deerfield" New England Magazine vol. 8 [NS] or vol. 14 [OS] 1893 (Mar. - Aug) p. 56 [Hathi Trust]
This citation was evidently informed by someone who knew the poem in memory and was related to the author. This is divergent in a few aspects and contains an alternative verse, which may have been the first couplet, but has been interpolated after the second line in some online resources.
