African-American Resources

• Anonymous, Contract for indenture of Susan, a girl of five years; August 19, 1865 (1865)
  
• Anonymous, A Slave's Story (June 1857)
  
• 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)