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library.forgemesh.io African American Writers Shelf
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library.forgemesh.io African American Writers Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain books by African American writers, including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Harriet Jacobs, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.
Price / call$0.003
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: African American Writers — 9 public-domain books including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, The Souls of Black Folk, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of public-domain books by African American writers (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), each entry including the book title, author, ranking position, and a drill-down route for full-text retrieval. The response includes works such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Souls of Black Folk, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Example use cases
Discovering classic slave narratives
“Give me a list of public-domain slave narratives and African American autobiographies I can read for free — show me up to 20 books with links to the full texts.”
Curating an African American literature reading list
“I'm putting together a reading list of classic African American literature. Pull the top 9 public-domain books by African American writers and give me their titles and authors.”
Researching W.E.B. Du Bois and contemporaries
“I want to explore W.E.B. Du Bois and his contemporaries — can you fetch the African American writers shelf and show me all available titles so I can find The Souls of Black Folk and related works?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/african-american-writersWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked discovery list of public-domain African American literature without needing to know specific titles in advance. It is ideal for building reading lists, powering literature exploration agents, or seeding full-text retrieval workflows. Prefer it over general web search when you want structured metadata with direct drill-down routes to full texts, and when no API key or license negotiation is required.
Side effects
- Limit parameter exceeds 50 — may return an error or be capped at 50
- Payment of $0.003 USDC not provided or rejected — 402 Payment Required response
- Limit set to 0 or negative integer — may return empty list or validation error
- Service unavailable — 5xx error with no book data returned
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave",
"author": "Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895",
"book_id": 23,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 11243
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "African American Writers",
"coverage": {
"target": 860,
"indexed": 860
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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