African-American Resources
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Collections and Projects
Uncle
Tom's Cabin and American Culture
The Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs
Race and Place: African American Community History
The Virginia Runaways Project
Liberia Letters
Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: a Guide to Manuscripts
The Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs
Race and Place: African American Community History
The Virginia Runaways Project
Liberia Letters
Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: a Guide to Manuscripts
African-American Authors
FREDERICK
DOUGLASS
- "The Color Line" (May 1881)
- The Future of the Colored Race (May 1886)
- My Escape from Slavery (1881)
- The Negro Exodus from the Gulf States () [ill.]
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1855) [ill.]
- An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage (1867)
- Reconstruction (1866)
- The heroic slave (1851, 1852, or 1853)
CHARLES
CHESNUTT
- The March of Progress 1901
- The Bouquet 1899
- The House Behind the Cedars 1900
- The Goophered Grapevine 1887
- The Free Colored People of North Carolina 1902
- Hot-Foot Hannibal 1899
- The Wife of his Youth 1898
- Baxter's Procrustes 1904
- Dave's Neckliss 1889
- The Partners 1901
- Po' Sandy 1888
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (1901)
- Heroes in Black Skins (September 1903)
- The Fruits of Industrial Training 1903
- Teamwork December 1915
- Heroes in Black Skins September 1903
- The Awakening of the Negro 1896
- The Religious Life of the Negro. 1905
- Negro Self-Help 1905
- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography 1901
- Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance? 1912
- The Case of the Negro 1899
- Signs of Progress among the Negroes 1900
- Negro Progress in Virginia January 1914
- Tuskegee: A Retrospect and Prospect 1906
W.E.B. DUBOIS
- The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
- A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South (1899)
- Credo (October 6, 1904)
- Of the Training of Black Men (1902)
- The Freedmen's Bureau (1901)
- Strivings of the Negro People (1897)
JAMES D. CORROTHERS
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1912)
- Blind Tom, Singing (1901)
- The Negro Singer (November 1912)
- An Indignation Dinner (1915)
RELATED AUTHORS
THOMAS
WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
- Negro Spirituals
- Pay of Colored Troops (1864 December 8) [ill.]
MARK TWAIN
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) [ill.]
MISCELLANEOUS TEXTS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
- Antibiastes, Observations
on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the
navy of the United States. (1777)
- Baker, Ray Stannard, Negro
Suffrage in a Democracy (1910)
- Barrows, Samuel J., What
the Southern Negro is Doing for Himself (June 1891)
- Bibb, Henry, Narrative
of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by
himself. With an introd. by Lucius C. Matlack. (1850) [ill.]
- Bonner, John Stuart, A
Master Sold by a Slave (1897)
- Boughton, Willis, 1854-1942,
"The
Negro's Place in History" (1896)
- Brawley, Benjamin,
The Negro in American Fiction (1916)
- Brawley, Benjamin,
The Negro Genius (1915)
- Cabell, William D., Letter
from William D. Cabell to his brother Joseph (1856 Aug. 18) [ill.]
- Chalmers, H.H., The
Effects of Negro Suffrage (1881)
- Chandler, John A., The
Speech of John A. Chandler . . . on the Policy of the State with respect
to Her Slave Population. (1832)
- Craft, William., Running
a thousand miles for freedom / [by] William and Ellen Craft. (1860)
[ill.]
- Dixon, Thomas, The
Leopard's Spots [selections] (1902) [ill.]
- Dodge, David, "The
Free Negroes of North Carolina" (1886)
- Dowd, Jerome, Paths
of Hope for the Negro: Practical Suggestions of a Southerner (1900)
- Ewing, Quincy, The
Heart of the Race Problem (1909)
- Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw,
A narrative
of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw,
an African prince, written by himself. (1774)
- Hammon, Briton, A
narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton
Hammon, a Negro man (1760)
- Hubard, Robert Thruston, Robert
Thruston Hubard's Negroes in Buckingham (1841, Oct.) [ill.]
- Ish, William K., Three
Hundred Dollars Reward: A broadside issued by William K. Ish and Joseph
L. Hawling to recover three slaves (June 10, 1839)
- Kemble, E. W., Illustrating
"Huckleberry Finn" (1929)
- Mann, W. A. and Lusk, John
A. M., Public
hiring of free negroes (February 5, 1855)
- More, Hannah (attributed), The
Sorrows of Yamba or The Negro Woman's Lamentation [a machine-readable transcription]
(1795) [ill.]
- Murray, Stirling, Diary
of Stirling Murray, a fragment from 1816 dealing with the slave trade in
Havana (1816)
- New
Jersey: Justices of the Supreme Court and Attorney Generals, Cases
adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the manumission
of Negroes and others holden in bondage. (1794)
- New, Anthony, Printed
Letter, 1794 (February 27, 1794) [ill.]
- Richards, William
T. J. and Richards, James, One
hundred dollar reward!: A broadside to recover a run away slave issued by
William T. J. Richards for the James Richards estate. (September 24,
[18--?]) [ill.]
- Romeyn, Henry, 'Little
Africa': The Last Slave Cargo Landed in the United States (1897)
- Runnion, James B., The
Negro Exodus (1879)
- Smythe, A. M., Letter
from Mrs. A. M. Smythe to her cousin, Feb 17, 1837 concerning the sale of
a family of slaves. (1837, Feb.17) [ill.]
- A Southern Planter, To
the citizens of the Southern States (1796) [ill.]
- Steward,
T. G.,
A Charleston Love Story; or, Hortense Vanross (1899)
- Trux, J. J., Negro
Minstrelsy -- Ancient and Modern (January 1855)
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, The
Negro in the Regular Army (1903)
- Wallace, G. B., Slave
Purchases and Breeding: Unruly Slave (1855, April 18)
- Wallace, George, From
the United States chronicle, Thursday, February 19, 1784. (1784)
- Watson family, Slave
account entries (May 10, 1858)
- Williams, Jane E, Slave
bill of sale from Jane E Williams (1816) [ill.]
- Wood, J. Taylor, The
Capture of a Slaver (1900)