The race problem: great speech of Frederick Douglass, delivered before...
In this speech, the elder Douglass reacts to southern "Resurrectionists" and their attempts to deprive southern blacks of their recently won civil rights. He examines the so-called "Negro problem" in this light... More
Proceedings of a Convention of the Friends of African Colonization, he...
Discussion of the present state and difficulties of Liberia, with resolutions passed to redress these difficulties. Much attention to the need for funds from the US to finance the colony, especially from state ... More
Proceedings of a Convention of the Friends of African Colonization, he...
Discussion of the present state and difficulties of Liberia, with resolutions passed to redress these difficulties. Much attention to the need for funds from the US to finance the colony, especially from state ... More
The Marvelous musical prodigy, Blind Tom : the Negro boy pianist, whos...
An account of the life and achievements of Thomas Bethune, a blind African American pianist whose musical abilities astonished his American and European audiences. Page [2], advertising matter. Also available i... More
Proceedings of a Convention of the Friends of African Colonization, he...
Discussion of the present state and difficulties of Liberia, with resolutions passed to redress these difficulties. Much attention to the need for funds from the US to finance the colony, especially from state ... More
The ethics of the labor problem : an address before the Bethel Literar...
A discussion of the basic elements of modern economics--land, labor, capital, credit, tariffs--by an African American speaker before an African American audience. Also available in digital form on the Library o... More
The Episcopal Church and the colored people : a statement of facts
Waller, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., traces briefly the origins and history of the Episcopal Church among African Americans, including notable black clergy, the spread of the churc... 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
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
The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution considered : the right to...
This legal case probes the intent and scope of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The justices give a broad defense of individual civil rights as protected from infringement by state ... More
Proceedings of the semi-centenary celebration of the African Methodist...
Development and history of the AME Church in Cincinnati: its founding, ministers, and testimonials thereto; the history and organization of the various congregations of the AME Church in Cincinnati; the rise an... More
Alphabetical index to the African repository, from volume one to volum...
The index covers a wide range of subjects pertinent to the American Colonization Society in the U.S. and Africa. Includes a listing of chapters of the Society by state and their activites and a list of manumiss... More
The destiny of the American Negro
Sutherland addresses a medical association in Memphis, Tennessee. A white doctor, he advocates separation of the white and black races for moral and medical reasons, regarding African Americans as an inferior r... More
The lost word, or, The search for truth : oration delivered before the...
Spurgeon, a 33rd degree Mason in Liberia, talks about the ceremonies, mysteries, and philosophy of freemasonry. LC has author's presentation copy. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Startling revelations from the Department of South Carolina, and expos...
Knox reports first-hand on corruption, profiteering, and abuse in the relief effort, employment, etc., of freed slaves in Union territory in South Carolina during the Civil War by federal army officers. His rep... More
A sermon on lynch law and raping
Emanuel K. Love, a prominent Baptist cleric, was at this time minister in Savannah, GA. Here, he discusses lynchings, charges of rape, and mob violence against African Americans in the South. He advocates equal... More
A sermon on lynch law and raping
Emanuel K. Love, a prominent Baptist cleric, was at this time minister in Savannah, GA. Here, he discusses lynchings, charges of rape, and mob violence against African Americans in the South. He advocates equal... More
The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution considered : the right to...
This legal case probes the intent and scope of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The justices give a broad defense of individual civil rights as protected from infringement by state ... More
The sexual status of the Negro, past and present
McHatton argues that African Americans were healthier and better off in slavery and living on plantations than as freedman living in towns and cities, as evidenced by the prevalence of veneral disease among bla... More
Address, delivered before the Georgia State Industrial College for Col...
A graduation address in which Arnett, A.M.E. bishop of South Carolina and Georgia, speaks about the social and educational achievements of African Americans and about prospects for future achievements and equal... More
The second annual report of the American Society for Colonizing the Fr...
Report of the Society's progress toward exploring the coast of West Africa in search of a site for a future colony. The appendix contains journal extracts from the Society's West Africa expedition, with much at... More
Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, delivered in the Metropolitan A.M....
Speech by an agitated Douglass about the so-called "negro problem" in the South. He is pessimistic about prospects for overcoming racial prejudice among southern whites and for securing full legal equality for ... 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
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 race problem: great speech of Frederick Douglass, delivered before...
In this speech, the elder Douglass reacts to southern "Resurrectionists" and their attempts to deprive southern blacks of their recently won civil rights. He examines the so-called "Negro problem" in this light... More
Address of Booker T. Washington : delivered at the alumni dinner of Ha...
Washington says that the black race is improving slowly in the South but needs help and encouragement to reach its fullest potential. He also sees better race relations as blacks and whites work together for th... More
The sexual status of the Negro, past and present
McHatton argues that African Americans were healthier and better off in slavery and living on plantations than as freedman living in towns and cities, as evidenced by the prevalence of veneral disease among bla... 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
Forty-second annual report of the Association for the Benefit of Color...
The regulations, rules, and officers of the Association, plus a treasurer's report, children's letters, etc. "Asylum, 143d Street, Tenth Avenue." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web si... More
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
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 race problem: great speech of Frederick Douglass, delivered before...
In this speech, the elder Douglass reacts to southern "Resurrectionists" and their attempts to deprive southern blacks of their recently won civil rights. He examines the so-called "Negro problem" in this light... More
A.L. Gusman in behalf of Samuel Wright, appellant, vs. L.H. Marreno, s...
Legal brief on behalf of Samuel Wright, presumably an African American, convicted in Louisiana of rape and sentenced to hang, challenging the legality of the Louisiana state constitution of 1898 under which Wri... 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
Lynch law in Georgia : a six-weeks' record in the center of southern c...
Accounts of nine lynchings as recorded in two major Georgia newspapers as a commentary on southern white racism, together with results of a private investigation of the incidents to ascertain the facts. Wells-B... 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
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 black woman of the South : her neglects and her needs
Crummell, pastor of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., from 1879-1898, spoke out for black liberation and founded the Negro Academy. This speech focuses on the status of African American women in ... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
A eulogy on Wendell Phillips - African American Perspectives Materials
Grimke, African American author, civil rights leader, and later prominent in the NAACP, reviews the anti-slavery movement after 1820 and praises Phillips as a sincere abolitionist and friend of American blacks.... More
The Wilberforce alumnal : a comprehensive review of the origin, develo...
This publication traces the educational work of the A.M.E. Church as it relates to Wilberforce University. It includes a short history of Wilberforce by Daniel A. Payne, first president of the university; enrol... More
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge o...
Contains much information on the freemason lodges of Arkansas, including a roster of lodges and their organizations, officers, membership and finances. Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library... 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
As some things appear on the Plains and among the Rockies in mid-summe...
Young, an African American from South Carolina, narrates his journey across the U.S. from Atlanta to the Rockies and back via the Upper Midwest and Chicago. He records his impressions of both country and people... More
Freedom honored! ; Hon. Hugh McCollough on emancipation ; Corresponden...
A speech by James M. Townsend, an African American and a recorder in the U.S. General Land Office, reported here by Magnus L. Robinson, editor of the Weekly Leader in Alexandria, Virginia, on the 28th anniversa... More
Duplicate copy of the souvenir from the Afro-American League of Tennes...
Speeches made at time of Emancipation Day presentation of a souvenir book to John M. Ashley, including ones by William H. Young, president of the Afro-American League of Tennessee, and by A.M.E. Bishop Benjamin... More
A plea for our work as colored Baptists, apart from the whites
Johnson, an African American Baptist minister from Baltimore, argues for a separate black Baptist denomination and institutions apart from the white Baptist establishment, claiming that separatism will, among o... More
The Negro as a soldier in the War of the Rebellion
Hallowell reviews the record of African Americans in Union armies during the Civil War, using two Massachusetts regiments of black troops as examples. Includes information on place of birth and occupation, uneq... More
A sermon on the war : "the duty of colored citizens to their country" ...
Proctor urges African Americans to support the war effort against Spain and to enroll in the U.S. Army, thereby making a good statement for themselves and demonstrating their loyalty, even the face of continued... More
A prayer - Public domain music sheet scan
A short prayer composed by a student at Atlanta Baptist College in response to racial troubles in Georgia in 1899. Hymn for SATB chorus. Words also printed as text on t.p. LC copy has inscription in ink on t.p.... More
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Convocation of the most excellent Roy...
Contains an account of the establishment of freemasonry in Arkansas and an oration on female masonry in addition to the election of officers, a treasurer's report, etc. LC copy has inscription in ink on t.p.: 1... More
Opinions of Bishop Isaac Lane : containing a treaties sic on Creation,...
Lane, an educator and a minister in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, discusses the religious topics enumerated in the subtitle of this pamphlet. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
Annual address to the Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia
Emanuel K. Love, a prominent Baptist cleric, was at this time a minister from Savannah, Ga. Here, he leads the charge against the Home Missionary Society (see also the pamphlets titled Annual address of Rev. E.... More
Is tuberculosis a disease of environment only?
An examination of the incidence of tuberculosis among Caucasians, Asians, and African Americans in different environments. McHatton sees plantation life as much healthier than emancipated life that put many Afr... More
Letters addressed by Edward M. Shepard to the Evening post on the Negr...
Shepard, a prominent northern Democrat, comments on African American suffrage and legal status in the South. He faults the Republican Party and Administration for abandoning African Americans but does not favor... More
Address of Senator Foraker at Arlington, Memorial Day, May 30, 1905
An oration on the causes and results of the Civil War. Sen. Foraker comments briefly on African Americans, whom he sees as having accomplished much since Emancipation. Caption title. Also available in digital f... 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
A system of education on the principle of connecting science with usef...
Fellenberg's system of education combines academic study with industrial arts or agricultural training from an early age to form good personal habits and character. Peter W. Gallaudet, who authored this pamphle... More
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 military execution of American citizens by order of the President ...
A call for a public accounting and an appeal of the city and national governments' actions in putting down the "riot" during the election of 1857 in Washington, D.C. District citizens maintained that innocent b... 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