Debt
Chapter 1 of 18 The Debt - Read by AH
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- Running time
- 16 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Algy Pug, Anita Hibbard, Brize C, Bruce Kachuk, David Lawrence and 13 others
Chapters
About this recording
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Debt by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 30, 2023.
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Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his lifetime was written in the "Negro dialect" associated with the antebellum South, though he also used the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley. Dunbar also wrote in conventional English in other poetry and novels and is considered the first important African American sonnet writer - Summary by Wikipedia
