White slavery in the United States
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Which is the church of Christ? : a summary
Waller, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., delivers a short sermon on Apostolic Succession and the Episcopal Church. Printer's name and place from verso of t.p. Jones was a printer in Wash... More
White slavery in the United States
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A glance at the past and present of the Negro
Terrell, a Washington, D.C., resident and an African American minister, hails the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation as the greatest events in US and African American history, reviews... More
The race-problem in America - African American Perspectives Materials
Crummell, pastor of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., from 1879 to 1898, spoke out for black liberation and founded the Negro Academy. He discusses the race problem in America and its possible re... More
Darkest Africa; real African life in a real African village
Cover title. Souvenir booklet from the African Village ("Darkest Africa") exhibit arranged by X. Pène at the Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Source: Bequest of Daniel Murray, 1925.
The injustice and impolicy of the slave trade, and of the slavery of t...
Logical arguments against slavery and the slave trade. Edwards advocates abolition of both in the U.S. and abroad. Appendix contains further agruments about manumission and alleged problem with it, especially i... More
On the British African Colonization Society, to which are added, some ...
"A letter from Jeremiah Hubbard, a minister amongst the Society of Friends in North Carolina, addressed to a friend in England": p. 22-32. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
An essay on the origin, habits, &c. of the African race : incidental t...
Flournoy, a native of Georgia, argues for the "expulsion of every Negro and Mulatto from this Country back to their own Africa." He opposes assimilation or any other way of treating the African American than by... More
To the people of the United States; or, To such Americans as value the...
Caption title. At head of title: The District of Columbia. No. 1. Published also as v. 1, no. 1 (August 1836) of The Anti-slavery examiner. Signed on p. 8: "In behalf of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Arthu... More
A history of Oberlin : or New lights of the West. Embracing the conduc...
Smith traces the history of Oberlin, Ohio, and its college and seminary, from which he was expelled and of which he is quite contemptible. He also gives an account of abolitionism at Oberlin, including the role... More
The Foulahs of Central Africa, and the African slave trade
An extended discussion about the Fulani (Foulahs) of West Africa as a people who could be enrolled in the effort to stop the slave trade at its source. Deals mostly with Fulani ethnology and language rather tha... More
Can abolitionists vote or take office under the United States Constitu...
Introduction signed: Wendell Phillips. Also available in digital form.
A Statistical inquiry into the condition of the people of colour, of t...
A discussion and statistics on the occupations, means of livelihood, real estate owned, rate of population increase since 1837, schools, beneficial societies, penitentiary inmates, and churches of Philadelphia'... More
An Address to the anti-slavery Christians of the United States
Caption title. "In behalf of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society."--p. [1]. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16846. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Source... More
Republic of Liberia: facts for thinking men, showing the present condi...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Poems on miscellaneous subjects
Harper was a freed African American woman from Baltimore. These poems range over a wide variety of subjects, but her basic concern is the female and womanhood. Appended are several essays on Christianity, the B... More
The minutes and sermon of the Second Presbyterian and Congregational C...
The minutes contain items of the business meeting, including discussion of the role of education as the way to elevate tha black race and a condemnation of the recent Dred Scott decision. The opening sermon by ... More
A copy of a letter, written to the President of the United States, on ...
Caption title. Signed on p. 4: Frederick Hasted, Cohoes, N.Y., September 12th, 1859. Signed on p. 8: Frederick Hasted, September 19th, 1859. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. L... More
The Nachash origin of the black and mixed races ..
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has pencilled inscription on cover: Pro-Slavery. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16959. Purchase, 1908 (DLC #114202).
The immediate issue: a speech of Wendell Phillips at the annual meetin...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 19840. Source: Source unknown.
The end of the irrepressible conflict
A criticism of Mr. Seward's speeches in the campaign. "Printed for the author." Sabin 22557. Also available in digital form.
The war, and how to end it - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congres...
Slocum looks at the abolition of slavery as inevitable in the U.S. and considers the possible effects. He favors emancipation and marshals evidence to show its practical, political, and economic benefits or the... More
Review of Rev. Henry J. Van Dyke's discourse on "The character and inf...
Also available in digital form. LAC brd 2019-04-26 no edits (1 card) Copy 2 is in Stern Coll. LAC brd 2019-04-26
The Life of slavery, or the life of the nation? : mass meeting of the ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 19336. Source: Source unknown.
The African slave trade. The secret purpose of the insurgents to reviv...
"A reproduction of some recent editorials of the National intelligencer." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The Emancipation Proclamation: speeches of the Hon. Albert Andrus, of ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC brd 2019-04-29 update (1 card)
The moral significance of the contrasts between slavery and freedom: a...
Also available in digital form.
Freedman's Savings and Trust Company ... Charter and by-laws
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Another copy in Toner Collection under call number HG2613.W34F92. Copy not found: qr14 01-30-92.
Petition and memorial of citizens of the United States to the Senate a...
Signed: George B. Cheever, Edward Gilbert, Parker Pillsbury. "Adopted at a public meeting held in the Church of the Puritans in the city of New York, Thursday evening, November 30, 1865." Also available in digi... More
An oration delivered by John J. Moore, V.D.M., before the Colored Maso...
Moore looks at religion and science as the "controlling elements of civilization and social progress" among ancient peoples and at how these mystic associations relate to masonry. Also available in digital form... More
To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has annotations in pencil on p. 3, 7. Embossed stamp on p. 7: Pennsylvania State Equal Rights League, Inst. Oct. 13th 1864, Justice & ... More
Report of the Assistant Commissioner for Alabama
1866- At head of title: Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen. Report year ends Sept. 30. Issue for 1867 also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. PREMARC/SERLOC merged record
Clear views in 1782, concerning the effects of slavery
Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16895. Exchange, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Message of the President of the Republic of Liberia to the two houses ...
A report on the state of Liberia in 1868. Among problems discussed are the country's debt, the need to expand and assimilate neighboring Africans, and the need for an appeal to African Americans for money to fi... More
Report of the Board of Trustees of Colored Schools of Washington and G...
The state of the schools' receipts and expenditures, enrollments, and facilities in 1870. The appendix contains the superintendent's detailed report on the past year's acitivities, administration, and facilitie... More
Ninth annual report of the Commission of Home Missions to Colored Peop...
An account of Protestant Episcopal Church missions in the South after the Civil War; contains a report of a commissioner sent to visit some of the missions in the South. Caption title. Also available in digital... More
Liberia, the U. S. Navy in connection with the foundation, growth and ...
Also available in digital form.
A Christian seeking work - African American Perspectives Materials
A sermon on the need to know God and to be active in spreading the Gospel. Emanuel K. Love, a prominent Baptist cleric, was at this time minister at Thomasville, GA. "Published by request." Also available in di... More
A defence of the Negro race in America from the assaults and charges o...
Crummell, pastor of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., from 1879 to 1898, spoke out for black liberation and founded the Negro Academy. Crummell gives here broad defense of the African American in... More
A new world - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.
Cover title. Sixth annual paper on Africa prepared by Mr. William Coppinger, secretary of the American Colonization Society, and published in the Baltimore Sun on November 28, 18835. Also available in digital f... More
Hell located, described, and measured according to the Bible and scien...
Taylor, an African American Baptist minister and a prominent Republican, uses both "science" and the Bible to explore the creation and structure of the earth and to locate a possible Hell in earth's molten inte... More
The new slavery - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.
Caption title. Imprint date inferred from text. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 17118. Source: Source unknown.
The southern struggle for pure government
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The kind and scope of education needed for the colored race : a paper ...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has inscription on p. [1]: 54.116. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16725. Source: Source unknown.
Annual report of the Colored Industrial Training School, ending May 20...
Contains a statement from the school's president about the value of education in industrial arts; a list of contributors and their contributions to the school; a treasurer's report; and the rules of the school.... More
The first annual report of the Executive Committee of Colored Evangeli...
Report of the committee's first year efforts to establish Presbyterian churches among African Americans in the states of the South (their establishment, membership, and support given), plus a report on the Tusc... More
Statistics of the Negroes in the United States,
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Replace; LC copy under E185.5.J65 no. 4 and LC copy under E185.G19 replaced by preservation microfilm.
Idle moments, containing Emancipation and other poems by D. Webster Da...
Webster was an African American poet from Richmond, Va. Here are several short poems or selections from poems that are humorous or didactic or that contain reminiscences. Subjects range from sketches of childho... More
Speeches at the Constitutional Convention
Smalls was an African American delegate to the South Carolina constitutional convention of 1895. He argued against proposed restrictions on the franchise and against discriminatory provisions on miscegenation a... More
The Negro from A to Z - African American Perspectives Materials
Cosey, an author, briefly looks at the history, intelligence, and future of the African American. He defends the African American by showing that blackness is not a mark of inferiority and that African American... More
Constitution and by-laws of the National Afro-American Council : organ...
Description of the National Afro-American Council, organized in 1898: its constitution, by-laws, and membership, and the constitution for all state chapters of the Council. Also available in digital form on the... More
Additional regiments of artillery : speech of Hon. George H. White of ...
White, an African American congressman from North Carolina, pleas for change in U.S. Army regulations to permit blacks into artillery regiments. He reviews the history of African Americans in the U.S. and says ... More
Race question reviewed. With individual comments and press notices
Reprint of an article published in the Nashville American on Jan. 29, 1899; accompanied by comments originally published in contemporary newspapers and journals. Includes bibliographical references. Source: Beq... More
Address by Bishop Benjamin William Arnett, D.D., Wednesday evening, Oc...
Arnett, a prominent A.M.E. cleric and at this time bishop of South Carolina and Georgia, speaks about the founding and development of the U.S. by both black and white races. He also favors further U.S. expansio... More
The story of Frederick Douglass : with quotations
An account of Douglass' life by a Washington, D.C., school teacher, intended to stimulate interest in the man and to offer a role model to young African Americans. Also available in digital form on the Library ... More
The duty of the white American towards his colored fellow-citizen: an ...
Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Microfilm. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
The Negro element in American life
DeMond looks at the achievements of African Americans in America at the beginning of the 20th century and says that they show the African American to be American, not African, and worthy of full-fledged citizen... More
The racial problem - African American Perspectives Materials
Holsey was a bishop in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. He deals with the "race problem" and advocates racial separation of black and white races in the U.S. and the creation of a separate state within t... More
Continuing cruelties in the convict chain gangs and camps of the south...
A critique of the prison system and the treatment of prisoners in the US, especially in the South. Much attention devoted to African American prisoners, male and female (excessive sentences and punishments), an... More
Political crimes and their consequences
A sermon on political crimes at the time of the assassination of President William McKinley. Crapsey, one of the most famous and influential clerics of the Episcopal Church and a writer on religion, calls for l... More
Little Dansie's one day at Sabbath school
A little girl is fatally injured trying to pull her Sabbath school teacher from the path of an oncoming train. A didactic short story designed to teach the virtues of patience and loving sacrifice to children. ... More
A glance at the past and present of the Negro
Terrell, a Washington, D.C., resident and an African American minister, hails the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation as the greatest events in US and African American history, reviews... More
The training of Negroes for social power
Caption title. "From the New York Outlook." Source: Bequest of Daniel Murray, 1925.
The impending crisis : the influence of trusts, labor troubles, race p...
Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A protest against the burning and lynching of Negroes
A newspaper article in which Washington protests lynchings and lack of trials for blacks accused of murder in the South and in which he asks pulpit and press to speak out against mob violence and lynchings. Cap... More
The South and the Negro: an address delivered at the Seventh Annual Co...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
Some interesting things at Hampton Institute
An overview of Hampton Institute from point of view of a conducted tour of the facilities, together with statistics on enrollments, graduates, and the financial state of the Institute. "Reprinted from the Evang... More
Immigration to the cities : address of Dr. W.S. Montgomery, assistant ...
"Delivered before the Third Annual Meeting of the National Association of Colored A. and M. Colleges and Schools for Secondary and Higher Education, held at Memphis, Tenn., December 28, 29 and 30, 1904." Also a... More
Library of William C. Bolivar, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ..
Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Address to the electors of Charleston District, South Carolina, on the...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and the Internet Archive Web site.
Appeal to the Christian women of the South,
Caption title. Following author's signature on p. 36: "Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society ..." Also available in digital form.
To the people of the United States; or, To such Americans as value the...
Caption title. At head of title: The District of Columbia. No. 1. Published also as v. 1, no. 1 (August 1836) of The Anti-slavery examiner. Signed on p. 8: "In behalf of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Arthu... More
Loyal National Repeal Association : the following is a copy of the add...
Letter from the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland in Dublin to the Cincinnati Irish Repeal Association, dated Oct. 11, 1843. Caption title. Author statement from p. 12. Pages also numbered 9-20. Also... More
Southern state rights, free trade and anti-abolition tract no. 1
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Shall we give Bibles to three millions of American slaves?
Caption title. Publisher from colophon; date inferred from text on p. 2. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Ink stamp on p. 2: 68849. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA ... More
A Statistical inquiry into the condition of the people of colour, of t...
A discussion and statistics on the occupations, means of livelihood, real estate owned, rate of population increase since 1837, schools, beneficial societies, penitentiary inmates, and churches of Philadelphia'... More
Three questions answered : what is slavery? were slaveholders members ...
At head of title: Matter for the times. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has numbers in pencil on verso of t.p.: 82416 '06. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA ... More
A lecture delivered in the Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts, on t...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
The South : a letter from a friend in the North, with special referenc...
Also attributed to Ebon C. Ingersoll. Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC brd 2019-04-25 no edits (1 card) Copy 2 is in the RBSCD. LAC brd 2019-04-25
Experience and personal narrative of Uncle Tom Jones, who was for fort...
"The surprising adventures of Wild Tom ..." (p. [29]-54) is an extract from "Archy Moore, the white slave ...", by Richard Hildreth. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy f... More
A review of the cause and the tendency of the issues between the two s...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Purchase, Jan. 28, 1991 (DLC #0203227). LAC brd 2019-04-24 no edits (2 cards)
The Union: being a condemnation of Mr. Helper's scheme, with a plan fo...
Also available in digital form.
French commerce and manufactures and Negro slavery in the United State...
"Translated for the London morning chronicle." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift, Margaret W. Cushing, Jan. 26, 1938. LAC brd 2019-04-25 no edits (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-05-... More
The immediate issue: a speech of Wendell Phillips at the annual meetin...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 19840. Source: Source unknown.
The "infidelity" of abolitionism
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The immediate agencies by which the southern states were precipitated ...
Caption title. "Intended as chapter II of a contemplated work, 'The campaigns of the great American war, to suppress the slaveholders' rebellion' (of which chapter I was published at pages 75 to 90, Gen. De Pey... More
Disunion and slavery: a series of letters to Hon. W. L. Yancey, of Ala...
Caption title. Also available in digital form.
Emancipation and the war: compensation essential to peace and civiliza...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
The freedmen of South Carolina: an address delivered by J. Miller M'Ki...
Cover title. "The freed blacks of South Carolina" (letter from J. M. M'Kim to Stephen Colwell): p. [18]-32. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
What shall be done with the people of color in the United States? A di...
Also available in digital form.
A reply to Mr. Charles Ingersoll's "Letter to a friend in a slave stat...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Pamphlet Collection: YA 16960. Purchase, Arba Blodget, Feb. 28, 1901. LAC ael 2019-04-09 no edits (1 card) LAC aaa... More
The African slave trade. The secret purpose of the insurgents to reviv...
"A reproduction of some recent editorials of the National intelligencer." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A reply to the letter of Bishop Hopkins, addressed to Dr. Howe in the ...
Signed on p. 18: M.A. De Wolfe Howe. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed on t.p. in pencil: May 3rd 1870 c/sxx in Bartlett no. 2286. By Howe (M.A. De Wolfe). LC... More
Proceedings of the Convention of the Equal Rights and Educational Asso...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 14228. Source: Source unknown.
The Negro's place in nature: a paper read before the London Anthropolo...
Introduction signed: J. H. Van Evrie, M.D. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
First gun of the campaign : speech of Hon. A.G. Thurman, delivered at ...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 8460. Source: Source unknown.
Catalogue of pupils of Saint Frances' Academy for Colored Girls, under...
An overview of the rules, organization, purpose, and enrollment of this school for African American girls in Baltimore; also included is a catalog of boys in a corresponding school for African American boys. Al... More
The struggle between the civilization of slavery and that of freedom, ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. LC copy 1 replaced by microfilm. Microfilm. Washington, D. C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Home for Aged and Infir...
Report of the organization and annual activities of the home. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy stamped in ink on cover and t.p.: J.O. White.