Pioneer Masters

This exhibit conveys a sense of the state of American poetry as it was coming into being; primarily, from the period of the American Revolution (1776) through the War for Southern Independence (1861-1865).

 

	Grand Canyon Polychrome Sites
				Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-1560)
	Diego Muñoz Camargo (c. 1529 – 1599)
		Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616)
Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchit (1568/80-1648)
				Chimalpahin (1579-1660)
			Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)
				Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Job Ben Solomon) (1701-1773)
		Jane Coleman Turell (1703-1735)
				Mather Byles (1706-1788)
	Jupiter Hammon (1711- before 1806)
			John Woolman (1720-1772)
Hannah Grffitts (1727-1817)
		Lucy Terry (1730-1821)
				Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801)
	Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
			Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801)
Milcah Martha Moore (1740-1829)
		Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Abigal Addams (1744-1818)
				Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
	Ann Bleecker (1752-1783)
			Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784)
		Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846)
Black Hawk (1767-1838)
				Sequoyah (c. 1767–1843)
	Margaretta Bleeker Faugeres (1771-1801)
			Rebecca Hammond Lard (1772-1855)
Hartford Wits (mid-1780s)
				Underground Railroad (1790s - mid-1800s)
Gabriel Prosser (1776-1800)
				Samuel Cornish (1795-1858)
		Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
			William Apess (1798-1839)
	George Moses Horton (1798-1884)
				Sacagawea (c. 1788–1812)
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842)
	Slave Narratives (1800s)
		Elias Boudinot (1802-1839)
			Lydia Maria Child (1802- 1880)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
		The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803–1806)
	James Williams' Slave Narrative (1805-?)
				Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
		Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
			Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
	Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
				Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897)
William Wells Brown (1814-1884)
			Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
		Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
				George Copway (1818-1869)
	Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
			James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
		Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
	Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
William Still (1821-1902)
			Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)
	James Monroe Whitfield (1822–1871)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1824–1911)
				Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900)
		Francis James Child (1825-1896)
				Ellen (1826-1891) & William (1824-1900) Craft
	Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898)
			John Rollin Ridge (1827-1867)
	Freedom's Journal (1827-1829)
				The Rights of All (1829-1830)
Henry Timrod (1829-1867)
	Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
		The Liberator (1831–1865)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
				James R. Osgood (1836-1892)
			Sitting Bull (c. 1831–1890)
Transcendentalism (1820s-1840s)
		Brook Farm (1840s)
				The Dial (1840-1844)
			Cudjoe Lewis (1840-1935)
	Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891)
				Wong Chin Foo (1847-1898)
The North Star (1847-1851)
			Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Rodolphe Desdunes (1849-1928)
				Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
		Black Elk (1863-1950)
				Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (1863-1952)
			Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912)
Sophia Alice Callahan (1868-1894)
		The Underground Railroad Records (1872)
				The Underground Railroad Records (Text of the 1872 book by William Still)
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1897 –1966)