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James Edwin Campbell

1867–1896


James Edwin Campbell was an Ohio-born Black poet and educator, and the first president of the West Virginia Colored Institute.

He published Echoes from the Cabin and Elsewhere (1895), and is remembered as a pioneer of dialect verse before Paul Laurence Dunbar.

  1. Negro Serenade
  2. De Cunjah Man
  3. Uncle Eph's Banjo Song
  4. Ol' Doc' Hyar
  5. When Ol' Sis' Judy Pray
  6. Compensation

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