note: Prepared by the Douglass Institute of Government (D.I.G.) for any African American Organization (Apparently Good for all Time!) to hand out or display prominently for those well meaning whites who will inevitably bore you with their psychotic question of reverse-racism, which they self- righteously assume to be self-evident in any organization organized by blacks to promote the welfare of blacks suffering under the yoke of white supremacy.
A lot of the authors aren't "really" Yankees anyhow. Too recent, or too far West.
The "New England writers" were certainly associated with (though ambivalent about) the abolitionist movement. Alcott's dad Bronson was the only one I know who put his money where his mouth was, allowing black children to attend his school (it promptly closed, however, when all the white denizens of Massachusetts pulled their kids out.) Bronson was an impractical dreamer, of course, his daughter and his wife Abby supported the family. And Alcott was pretty racist (going by the true definition of belief that blacks as a race were inferior to whites). The best (or worst) example I recall is a story she wrote about a captured seagull, with a main character being a little black girl who embodies every stereotype from the minstrel shows. Wish I could remember the title.