Occupations of the Negroes, - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congre...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Replace; LC copy under E185.5.J65 no. 6 and under E185.8.G19 each replaced by a separate preservation microfilm
Incidents of hope for the Negro race in America : a Thanksgiving sermo...
Crummell, pastor of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washingtion, D.C., from 1879 to 1898, spoke out for black liberation and founded the Negro Academy. He gives several reasons for optimism about the future of A... More
National appeal to the American Negro : "Why we should favor the Chica...
Taylor appeals to his fellow African Americans to vote according to their own best interest and not to vote blindly for the Republican Party any more. In a second appeal, he says African Americans should vote f... More
The higher education of the colored people of the South
A consideration of what type of education is best suited to blacks in Liberia and in the South. Browne, an influential educator and graduate of Howard University and Princeton Theological Seminary, favors eleme... More
Annual address of Rev. E.K. Love, D.D., president, Missionary Baptist ...
Emanuel K. Love, a prominent Baptist cleric, was at this time a minister in Savannah, Ga. Here, he gives an overview of the Georgia Missionary Baptist Convention and its present state of lethargy. Love proposes... More
An address - African American Perspectives Materials
A newspaper summary of Washington's address about the loyalty of African Americans and his appeal for justice and recognition of African American's civil rights. President William McKinley, members of his cabin... More
Chinese vs. Negroes as American citizens
Scottron, an African American scholar from Brooklyn, compares African American with Chinese emigrants and finds them loyal citizens who can be fully assimilated into U.S. life and culture despite the lowly stat... More
Dr. Johnson's blood-purifying compound infusion golden seal : one bott...
Johnson, a botanist and an electrician, advertises here his "health-restoring and life-prolonging tonic," together with testimonials and advertisements for other patent medicines. Cover title. "Acts upon the li... More
Some lessons from the assassination of President William McKinley
Grimke, African American author, pastor of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., and a prominent civic activist, praises the black man named Parker who prevented a third shot from being fired... 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
Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, held at Philadelphia, on th...
A collection of debates over how senators are to be selected -- by election or by appointment -- in the new union, compiled by A.P.C. Griffin, chief bibliographer in the Library of Congress. Also available in d... More
Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1902, no. 493 : Jack...
A legal brief presenting the case of an African American, Jackson W. Giles, against Montgomery County, Alabama, challenging the suffrage provisions of the 1901 constitution of the State of Alabama. Giles charge... More
The Hart Farm School : statement of account between the United States ...
The Hart Farm School housed dependent African American boys. This "statement" contains the legal provisions of care for the boys as provided by Congress via the District Government. Of special interest is a dis... More
A Mississippi view of race relations in the South
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Microfilm. Washington, D. C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
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 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 psychological considerations in the race problem
A search for the psychophysical bases of race. Miller's experiments with whites, Indians, and African Americans show no significant psychophysical differences among the three races. "Reprinted from the Biblioth... More
The installation of Wilbur Patterson Thirkield, D. D., LL.D., as presi...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Pages 17-18, "Prayer by the Reverend William Ingraham Haven, D.D.," misplaced in binding.
Fifty years of good works - African American Perspectives Materials
Includes A half century of good works, 1863-1914, by W. S. Montgomery, and the fifty-first annual report of the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, for the year 1913. So... More
A full statement of the reasons which were in part offered to the comm...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Why work for the slave? : a manual for the treasurers and collectors o...
Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has ink stamp on verso on cover: 73848. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 24880. Source: Source unknown.
Report on the practicability and necessity of a house of refuge for co...
Signed on p. 14: Frederick A. Packard [et al.]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16622.
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
A brief statement of the rise and progress of the testimony of the Rel...
Also available in digital form.
Colonization and missions: a historical examination of the state of so...
Also available in digital form.
African colonization by the free colored people of the United States, ...
"With an address to the clergymen of Ohio, by the Ohio Colonization Committee." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed in pencil on cover: Jacob Hoffner, Esq Cummi... More
Memorial of thirty thousand disfranchised citizens of Philadelphia, to...
A petition to the Pennsylvania State Legislature by free black citizens of Philadelphia protesting their disenfranchised status as a result of the city's Convention of 1832. Included are testimonials about the ... More
Slavery and its tendencies: a letter from General J. Watson Webb to th...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Statistics of the colored people of Philadelphia
Statistics on African American education (history, enrollment, and physical facilities of various types of schools for blacks in 1854), adult literacy and occupations, crime and criminals from 1835 to mid-1850s... More
The Tract Society and slavery : speeches of Chief Justice Williams, Ju...
Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 17777. Source: Source unknown.
The relation of the general government to slavery : an address deliver...
Caption title. "Published by request." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has ink stamp on p. 1: 61503 05. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 15707. Source: Sour... More
An address to the colored people of Pennsylvania
Cover title. Author statement and imprint date taken from p. 27. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Source: Source unknown.
Address and resolutions adopted at the meeting of the Southern Rights ...
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The great questions of the times, exemplified in the antagonistic prin...
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Historical notes on the employment of Negroes in the American Army of ...
Moore, librarian of the New York Historical Society, discusses the role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War -- the wrangling over whether to allow black troops to be armed and to fight, especially in ... More
Emancipation : a discourse delivered in Park Street Church, on Fast Da...
"Published by request." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 24870. Source: Source unknown.
What became of the slaves on a Georgia plantation? : great auction sal...
First-hand account of a slave sale, with vivid descriptions of buyers and slaves and of the workings of the sale. First published under title: Great auction sale of slaves, at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d and 3d... More
Second report of a committee of the representatives of New York Yearly...
Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has stamp on p. [2]: 61503. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 11667. Source: Source unknown.
Forward or backward? - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.
Also available in digital form.
Narrative of the life of J.D. Green, a runaway slave, from Kentucky : ...
"Eighth thousand." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has number in pencil on verso of t.p.: 114217 08. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 24872. Source: Source unknown.
Our alma mater : an address delivered at Concert Hall on the occasion ...
A history and present state of a secondary school for blacks founded by the Society of Friends in Philadelphia in 1842 by one of its alumni. The Institute was designed to train teachers who in turn would teach ... More
Life of James Mars, a slave born and sold in Connecticut
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has number in pencil at bottom of p. [4]: 114215 08. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 23887. Source: Source unknown.
Letter from a radical, on the Freedmen's Bureau
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16614. Source: Source unknown.
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
Address of Cuba to the United States
Signed: M. Quesada. Also available in digital form. LC copy has inscription in pencil on t.p.: "Manuel de Quesada y Loynaz", "2510/5350".
By-laws of Simon Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar
The by-laws, rules of order, a list of officers, etc., of a branch of the Masonic Lodge. "Instituted, December 18, A.D. 1855, A.O. 738." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A centennial Fourth of July Democratic celebration: the massacre of si...
Caption title. 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
First annual address to the law graduates of Allen University, class '...
Straker, a law professor and dean of the Law Department at Allen University, offers advice to law graduates about how to succeed in law, holding up Charles Sumner and Wendell Phillips as models. LC copy stamped... 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
Light beyond the darkness - African American Perspectives Materials
Harper was a freed African American woman from Baltimore. She rebuts the call of Maurice Thompson for black revenge and an uprising against white society in favor of racial cooperation and harmony. Cover title.... More
The Zion Methodist - African American Perspectives Materials
The history of the A.M.E. church and its current state, with a directory of its officers, boards, districts, educational institutions, and periodicals. Benjamin was a pastor in the A.M.E church. Also available ... More
An appeal to the king : the address delivered on Negro Day in the Atla...
Bowen was a professor of historical theology. He gives an oration on the achievements of African Americans thirty years out of slavery. He covers African American history, makes a plea for African American educ... More
The higher education of the colored people of the South
A consideration of what type of education is best suited to blacks in Liberia and in the South. Browne, an influential educator and graduate of Howard University and Princeton Theological Seminary, favors eleme... More
A review of Hoffman's Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
Annual address of Rev. E.K. Love, D.D., president, Missionary Baptist ...
Emanuel K. Love, a prominent Baptist cleric, was at this time a minister in Savannah, Ga. Here, he discourses on the split between the Missionary Baptist Convention and the Home Missionary Society, a rival Afri... More
The solution of problems, the duty and the destiny of man
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 moral and spiritual concerns that he says const... 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
The colored American working man of the new time : an address delivere...
An address stressing the value of general education in a democracy, but recommending industrial education for the working class, especially for African Americans in the South. Cover title. Also available in dig... More
"Learning by doing" at Hampton - African American Perspectives Materia...
Shaw surveys the educational scene at Hampton Institute and hails the Institute's educational philosophy and its success as a model to be emulated elsewhere in the US. Caption title. Signed at end: Albert Shaw.... More
Nineteenth annual report of the principal of the Tuskegee Normal and I...
An annual report submitted by Booker T. Washington, listing trustees, discussing the value of industrial education and the careers of the Institute's graduates, and giving figures for staff, income, and gifts. ... More
Economic conditions in Haiti ; The Cape Nome gold fields
A U.S. consular report issued by the Bureau of Foreign Commerce on economic conditions in Haiti in 1900. It predicts a rush to newly-discovered gold fields at Cape Nome and gives statistics on imports, exports,... More
The white man's failure in government
Johnson, an African American Baptist minister from Baltimore, questions the ability of the white race to rule itself justly or democratically, citing the absurdities and shortcomings he sees on the U.S. politic... More
The blood red record : a review of the horrible lynchings and burning ...
Lists of lynched and burned African Americans in the US after 1893. Bruce condemns such lynchings and treatment of blacks at the hands of so-called "civilized," Christian whites, mostly but not entirely in the ... More
Testimonial to Hon. George H. White at Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, Fri...
The program of a testimonial to White, an African American Congressman from North Carolina, by the black citizens of Washington, D.C. "Testimonial to Hon. George H. White, member, 56th Congress, Second Congress... More
... annual report for the year ending ..
The first annual report includes the act of incorporation and by-laws of the hospital, created to care for indigent New York citizens in 1898, most patients being African Americans. The report describes facilit... More
The Voice of the carpet bagger ..
The first issue of a publication designed to protest racial injustice in the South and to defend southern loyalists, northern businessmen, soldiers, etc. (i.e. "carpet baggers") who invested in the South immedi... 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.
Negro suffrage : should the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments be rep...
Morrell, a congressman from Pennsylvania, discusses and refutes the arguments by a Georgia representative that African Americans should be deprived of the franchise. Following his speech are testimonials on bot... More
Suffrage limitations at the South
These are the findings of the Union League Club of New York City with respect to suffrage in the southern states. Based on statistics for Congressional voting between 1892 and 1902, the League concluded that lo... 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
The national providence, essays
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The ministry; the field for the talented tenth
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A self-made man, Capt. Paul Cuffee
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Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success...
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J.S. Carroll - A valuable book - African American Perspectives Materia...
A system of horse training as taught by Professor J. S. Carroll, a famed Texas horse-trainer. Carroll talks first about the nature of horses, then how to train them. Cover title. Also available in digital form ... More
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
Proceedings of the Convention of Ministers of Worcester County on the ...
Includes "Remonstrance of the minority" signed by twelve ministers. Also available in digital form.
Letter of Gerrit Smith, to Hon. Henry Clay
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has inscription in pencil on verso of t.p.: 110490 08. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 15740. Source: Source unknown.
Free church alliance with manstealers: send back the money; great anti...
Cover title. Prefatory letter signed: Henry C. Wright. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
An address delivered before the Pro-slavery Convention of the State of...
Also available in digital form. LAC brd 2019-04-26 no edits (1 card)
Platform of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its auxiliaries
Also available in digital form.
What makes slavery a question of national concern? A lecture, delivere...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC brd 2019-04-24 no edits (1 card) Copy 1 provenance: "Gift of Margaret W. Cushing, January 26, 1938." LAC brd 2019-04-24
The agitation of slavery. Who commenced! And who can end it!! Buchanan...
Caption title. A Democratic campaign document. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Minutes of the Third Presbyterian and Congregational Convention, toget...
Contains the constitution of the Evangelical Association of Presbyterian and Congregational Clergymen of Color in the United States; the minutes include a report on the churches of Philadelphia and resolutions ... More
The Natick resolution; or, Resistance to slaveholders, the right and d...
Also available in digital form.
A scriptural view of the moral relations of African slavery
Cover title. "Revised and amended in 1859." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16632. Source: Source unknown.
The celebration of the eighty-third anniversary of the Declaration of ...
Includes an oration by William H. Johnson on slavery and freedom in U.S. and especially on the inconsistency of slavery with the Declaration of Independence. Oration, by William H. Johnson: p. 10-29. Also avail... More
No slave-hunting in the Old Bay State: an appeal to the people and leg...
Extracts from a speech delivered February 17, 1859. Also contains extracts from speeches of William Lloyd Garrison and Charles C. Burleigh, 1859. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Theological miscellanies. Chapter XXX, Written on these words, "He sha...
Caption title. Signed on p. 8: Frederick Hasted. Publication date inferred from p. 4. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16634. Source... More
The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa : a ...
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 addresses freed black Americans from Liberia. He does no... More
Disunion and slavery: a series of letters to Hon. W. L. Yancey, of Ala...
Caption title. Also available in digital form.
The war and slavery; or, Victory only through emancipation
Also available in digital form.
Cheap cotton by free labor - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congres...
Also available in digital form. 010z 01-5136a
Who is Colonel Jennison? : Jennison--his raids in Missouri--his murder...
Signed at end: G.C. Bingham, Jefferson City, May 6, 1862. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 8707. Source: Source unknown.
A copy of a letter, written to the President of the United States, on ...
Caption title. A series of letters by Frederick Hasted. Also available in digital form.
Our country versus party spirit : being a rejoinder to the reply of Pr...
Also available in digital form.
Theological miscellanies. Chapter XXIX, Written on these words, "Son o...
Caption title. Signed on p. 4: Frederick Hasted. February, 1863. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16634. Source: Source unknown. Wit... More
The history of slavery and emancipation: speech delivered by H.T. Utle...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
Slavery and the war: a historical essay
Also available in digital form.