Quote of the day
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation.
Albery Allson Whitman

Born: 1851
Died: 1901 (aged 50)
Bio: Albery Allson Whitman was an African American poet, minister and orator. Born into slavery, Whitman created a successful career for himself as a writer, and during his lifetime was acclaimed as the Poet Laureate of the Negro Race.
Known for:
- Not a man, and yet a man (1877)
- An idyl of the South (1901)
- Twasinta's Seminoles
- Twasinta's Seminoles: Or, Rape of Florida (1885)