Southern state rights, free trade and anti-abolition tract no. 1
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Papers on the slave power : first published in the "Boston Whig"
Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form.
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
Addresses delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives, Harri...
"Published by order of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society." Also available in digital form.
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
African slave trade in Jamaica, and comparative treatment of slaves : ...
Sheppard looks at the role of England in promoting slavery in North America. He concludes that the effects of slavery depend not only upon its existence but also upon the manner in which it is instituted, as sh... 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
Letter of Hon. L. O'B. Branch, of North Carolina, to his constituents
Signed on p. [4]: L. O'B. Branch. Washington City, May 12, 1858. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 18666. Source: Source unknown.
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
The Union: being a condemnation of Mr. Helper's scheme, with a plan fo...
Also available in digital form.
Annual report of the Superintendent of Negro Affairs in North Carolina...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
Report of a Committee of Representatives of New York Yearly Meeting of...
Also available in digital form.
Remarks on Bishop Hopkins' letter on the Bible view of slavery
Also available in digital form.
Copy of a letter written from Buffalo, State of New York, North Americ...
Caption title. Source: Gift of Alfred Whital Stern, July 19, 1955. In case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-05-15 no edits (1 card)
Addresses of Rev. Drs. Wm. Hague and E. N. Kirk, at the annual meeting...
Also available in digital form.
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
Theological miscellanies. Chapter XXVIII, Written on these words, "But...
Caption title. Signed on p. 4: Frederick Hasted. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16634. Source: Source unknown. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. With: A copy of a l... More
The mastership and its fruits : the emancipated slave face to face wit...
An on-the-spot report on the master-slave relationship in recently freed territory in the lower Mississippi River valley. The report expresses optimism about the ability of freed slaves to adjust to the coming ... More
Proceedings of the State Equal Rights' Convention, of the Colored Peop...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has newspaper clipping tipped in between title page and cover. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16721. Source: Source unknown.
Democratic platform, people's resolutions: a republican form of govern...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
An act to incorporate the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company : appro...
Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16972a. 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
Grant or Greeley--which? Facts and arguments for the consideration of ...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and in microfilm. Replace; LC copy replaced by preservation microfilm
The poor old slave : or, Plantation life before the war : a dramatic s...
A short drama about life on a southern plantation which culminates in the death of a slave by beating. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
North America and Africa: their past, present and future
Also available in digital form.
The Christian civilization of Africa: an address delivered before the ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
"Wait on the Lord" - African American Perspectives Materials
Emanuel K. Love, a prominent Baptist cleric, was at this time a minister at Thomasville, Ga. Here, he preaches a religious message with political overtones: his theme is the "elevation" of the black race in the... More
Twentieth annual report of the National Association for the Relief of ...
Contains the Act of Incorporation and by-laws, officers, income and donations, and events of 1882. "Extract from the Matrons Report of October 1882, List of fruits and vegetables gathered from the garden since ... 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
Future : containing great lecturers on the future of the colored race,...
Burks, an Indiana lawyer, provides social criticism from a black perspective. He gives three lectures here. First, the situation of the black race - its morality, its faults, the issue of African American emigr... More
G.W. Ellis' oration - African American Perspectives Materials
Addresses the "race problem" of the late 19th century -- shall the black man be equal? Ellis touts the accomplishments of African Americans since Emancipation and says blacks will continue to battle for liberty... More
Emancipation address : our duties and how to discharge them : delivere...
Williams, an African American professor in a normal school, speaks about the duties of African Americans to their race, the state, and the nation. Among these are the need for good home and family life, for edu... More
Was Richard Allen great? - African American Perspectives Materials
Richard Allen was born a slave in Philadelphia. Palmer, pastor of Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia, discusses his character and qualities as a slave, his conversion to Christianity, and the role he pl... More
Address to the graduating class of the College Department, Howard Univ...
A graduation oration on the value and application of higher education, with some attention to specifically African-American concerns (maintain self-respect and dignity, criticize the existing social order but f... More
The Negro and the signs of civilization : from the Tradesman, Chattano...
Washington argues that races gain self-and mutual-respect via "signs" of civilization, i.e., through material possessions and achievements, and that it is in the interest of whites in North and South to help so... More
Negro criminality, - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Microfilm. Washington, D. C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
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
Chronology of the War with Spain
A chronology of the Spanish American War in 1898. American Memory Project research disclosed no indication as to why Daniel Murray included this pamphlet in his collection. Caption title. Also available in digi... More
The Negro in America : the influence of his presence upon the material...
Hurley, a minister, addresses the question of the material, social, moral, and political influence of the African American upon the development of the United States. He finds slavery to have been an unmitigated... More
Army reorganization : speech of Hon. George H. White, of North Carolin...
White, an African American Congressman from North Carolina, in speaking in favor of annexation of the Philippines, pleads for equal treatment and respect for blacks and whites and says African Americans want ju... More
Some aspects of the race problem in the South
A reasoned assessment of the situation of blacks in the U.S. and the common responsibility of North and South for creating and solving America's "race problem." Covers the history of slavery in U.S. and the sta... More
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
Education of the Negro - African American Perspectives Materials
Scottron, an African American scholar from Brooklyn, speaks about education and the future of the African American. He favors training in manual arts and in the trades as a faster way to improve the lot of Afri... More
The Annual Meeting of the National Afro-American Press Association, Be...
A listing of topics about African Americans and the press that were discussed together with officers elected at the meeting. Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The Negroes of Sandy Spring, Maryland: a social study
Caption title. Includes bibliographical references. Source: Bequest of Daniel Murray, 1925. LAC brd 2019-05-31 no edits (1 card)
Work among the freedmen : address of Rev. Samuel J. Fisher, D.D., befo...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 13012. Transfer, June 3, 1910.
Feud life in Kentucky : a review of Red Head, J.U. Lloyd's latest book
An interview by Charles Alexander of Wilberforce University with John Uri Lloyd, chemist and author, in Cincinnati. Lloyd's book is a novel set in Kentucky that appeals for general social and religious toleranc... More
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.
Census statistics of the Negro : a paper
"From the Yale Review, November, 1904." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Source: Source unknown.
The race problem. The Brownsville raid. Speech of Benjamin R. Tillman ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of race relations in the United States book, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
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
Minutes of the Twenty-first Biennial American Convention for Promoting...
Reports from various state chapters of the convention. Also contains the constitution and by-laws of the convention. "Printed by order of the convention." Date correction from cover. Shoemaker 37439 Also availa... 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
Appendix : Report on African colonization of the Committee on Commerce...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 8076. Source: Source unknown.
Thirteenth annual report presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery S...
A review of the Society's activities during 1844 and statements of its philosophy and aims. Includes reports on support from European abolitionists and a report on the work of Samuel Hoare to free imprisoned ab... More
Narrative of Henry Watson, a fugitive slave
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has illegible inscription in ink on cover and is also inscribed in pencil. On t.p.: April 1, 1874; on verso of t.p.: 114219 '08. LC co... More
The United States Constitution - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Con...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
Letter of Hon. L. O'B. Branch, of North Carolina, to his constituents
Signed on p. [4]: L. O'B. Branch. Washington City, May 12, 1858. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 18666. Source: Source unknown.
Two sermons on slavery and its hero-victim
Cover title. Also available in digital form.
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
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
Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Gov. Wise and Mrs. Mason,...
Abolitionist statements in the form of letters addressed to Governor Wise of Virginia on the occasion of John Brown's raid and arrest. Child criticizes Virginia's laws on race, and draws a rebuke from Wise. Inc... More
Letters on American slavery from Victor Hugo, de Tocqueville, Emile de...
A number of letters by prominent foreigners, all of whom oppose slavery in North America and elsewhere in the world. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The "infidelity" of abolitionism
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Disunion and slavery: a series of letters to Hon. W. L. Yancey, of Ala...
Caption title. Also available in digital form.
The governing race; or, Is slavery sanctioned by the Bible? : book for...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16979. Source: Source unknown.
Speech of Hon. J.B. Henderson of Missouri, on the abolition of slavery...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 17117. Exchange, Wisconsin Historical Society.
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.
What shall be done with the people of color in the United States? A di...
Also available in digital form.
Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People,...
A report of the measures to raise funds to aid African Americans who lost their homes and livelihoods in recent mob violence, together with testimonials from those attacked and a list of contributors. "July 186... More
Freedom national: the Emancipation Proclamation vindicated;
Also available in digital form.
Speech of Cassius M. Clay, before the Law Department of the University...
Also available in digital form.
Notes on colored troops and military colonies on southern soil
The officer has high praise for most African American soldiers and proposes organizinf them into an army after the Civil War and settling them on farms in the South. Copyrighted by S. B. Brague. Also available ... More
The barbarism of slavery: speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill f...
Also available in digital form.
The despised race : a discourse preached in the Salem Baptist Church, ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16974. Source: Source unknown.
Our country versus party spirit : being a rejoinder to the reply of Pr...
Also available in digital form.
The moral significance of the contrasts between slavery and freedom: a...
Also available in digital form.
The mastership and its fruits : the emancipated slave face to face wit...
An on-the-spot report on the master-slave relationship in recently freed territory in the lower Mississippi River valley. The report expresses optimism about the ability of freed slaves to adjust to the coming ... More
Colored suffrage : report submitted in the Board of Common Council
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 12628.
Constitution, by-laws, and rules of the Home for Aged and Infirm Color...
Report of the establishment and administration of the home and events of the first year. Lists officers, life members, donors, and inmates admitted with biographical sketches of some inmates; treasurer's report... 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.
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
A speech on "Equality before the law"
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 20382. Source: Source unknown.
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.
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Home for Aged and Infir...
Report of the organization and annual activities of the home; describes building improvements accomplished during the last year. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has s... More
An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday ...
Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed on p. [1]: Rev. Samuel May, Apr. 14, 1897. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16853. Source: Source unknown.
Eleventh annual report of the Commission of Home Missions to Colored P...
An account of Protestant Episcopal Church missions in the South ten years after the Civil War: summation of income and expenses; a list of schools and missions connected with the commission; detailed reports on... More
Mission of the gospel church : a dedication sermon
Emanuel K. Love, a prominent Baptist cleric, was at this time minister at Thomasville, Ga. Here, he talks about the evangelistic mission of the Church. "Published by request." Also available in digital form on ... More
The race for Africa - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.
Cover title. Third annual paper on Africa by William Coppinger, secretary of the American Colonization Society. Published in the Baltimore Sun, November 11, 1882. Also available in digital form on the Library ... More
Illiteracy and its social, political and industrial effects : an addre...
A speech about illiteracy in the U.S., with special attention to the South, including African Americans. Included statistics on illiteracy in the South. Also available in digital form.
Introductory sermon of Rev. Emanuel K. Love on entering the pastorate ...
A purely religious discourse on the mission and responsibilities of a minister. Love was a Baptist minister active in Georgia. "Preached Sunday night, Oct. 4th, 1885." LC copy has inscription in ink on t.p.: 18... More
Wonderful eventful life of Rev. Thomas James
An autobiography by James, a minister in the A.M.E. church, recounting his life from slavery to the ministry to the anti-slavery movement in New York and Massachusetts. Contains an interesting account of how he... More
The national elections bill : speech of Hon. John M. Langston, of Virg...
Langston was an African American congressman from Virginia. In a somewhat rambling way, he speaks in favor of an elections bill that would protect blacks and whites who wanted to vote Republican from intimidati... More
Negro suffrage south : a Republican admonishes the Republican Party
Caption title. Signed on p. 11: D.K. Tenney, Chicago, June 1, 1891. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 1[...]. Source: Source unknown.
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.
Catalogue and circular of the Branch Normal College of the Arkansas In...
A description of the organization, courses, policies, and physical facilities of the college, founded in 1873 to train black Americans in mechanical arts and teaching. Included a listing of students, a year by ... 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.
Eulogy on the life of and services of Hon. Frederick Douglass
Crummell, pastor of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., from 1879 to 1898, spoke out for black liberation and founded the Negro Academy. He praises Douglass as a giant among men and a man to be emula... More