Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence, credited to Alice Dunbar Nelson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Read in English by Jim Locke It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give pause and look around him at the things which he has done, those which he might have done, and those which he intends to do. We pause, just at the beginning of another half century, taking stock of past achievements, present conditions, future possibilities. (Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
• Author credits: Alice Dunbar Nelson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 51
• Listed recording duration: 13:05:08

Catalogue topics

• race in america

Opening tracks: first 24 of 51

1. 00 - Preface — 4:08
2. 01 - Prince Saunders — 8:35
3. 02 - James McCune Smith — 22:22
4. 03 - Hilary Teague — 13:19
5. 04 - Frederick Douglass — 12:46
6. 05 - Charles H. Langston — 26:04
7. 06 - Richard T. Greener — 5:43
8. 07 - Robert Browne Elliot — 33:45
9. 08 - John R. Lynch — 9:27
10. 09 - Alexander Dumas, Fils — 2:01
11. 10 - John M. Langston — 6:50
12. 11 - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper — 9:24
13. 12 - Henry Highland Garnet — 25:48
14. 13 - George L. Ruffin — 12:00
15. 14 - Frederick Douglass — 26:46
16. 15 - P.B.S. Pinchback — 12:34
17. 16 - Alexander Crummell — 19:34
18. 17 - Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin — 7:15
19. 18 - James Madison Vance — 6:18
20. 19 - Booker T Washington — 9:46
21. 20 - Booker T. Washington — 8:23
22. 21 - Christian A. Fleetwood — 25:36
23. 22 - Charles W. Anderson — 12:02
24. 23 - William Sanders Scarborough — 12:39

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