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Paul LAurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American writer of sixteen collections of poetry, four collections of short stories, and four novels (Miller 393). No Negro of finer artistic spirit has been born in America (Bone 131). He speaks or slavery, rebellion, misery, and freedom in his poems and short stories. Paul Laurence Dunbar is a well know African American, classical poet of the nineteenth century, who writes poems in standard English or black dialect, seeks to recreate the Negro, and cries out to freedom form slavery to all of the Negroes who read his work. He was popular with black and white readers of his day, and his works are celebrated today by scholars and school children. Paul Laurence Dunbar was a former slave who escaped by means of the Underground Railroad (Miller 393). He began writing after he gradated from high school because he could not afford to go to college. He got a job, which bored him enough, that he began to write poems and short stories. As his first writing made a little impression on people, his second collection flew off. He wrote many books filled with his amazing poetry, including dunbar, because, poetry, poems, poem, negro, dialect, wear, sympathy, slave, black, wrote, way, slavery, slaves, poet, people, out, masks, line, life, caged, bird, being, know, feels, english, american, writing, work, stories, standard, race, laurence, freedom