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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
The Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division collects, preserves, and makes available for research purposes rare, unique, and primary materials that document the history and culture of people of African descent throughout the world, with a concentration on the Americas and the Caribbean.
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The Negro digs up his past
Afro-American Realty Company brochure
A Specimen of Accompts in the Sugar Colonies
Indenture of Jemima, Amity Hall Estate
Punishment record books of Friendship Plantation
Edisto Beach Cafe and Grill
Ubangi Club
Marcus Garvey, YFJ
Testimonial Dinner to the Honorable Charles W. Anderson
Floor Plan
Café Largo
Jack Dempsey's Broadway Bar and Cocktail Lounge Souvenir Photo Holder
Dinner by the American Minister and Mrs. Francis
Club Sudan Souvenir Photo Holder
Aunt Kizzy's Back Porch
Motown Cafe
Luncheon Special Menu
Onyx Club Souvenir Photo Holder
Little Harlem
Souvenir Photo Holder
The Tree Houses: Restaurant of the African Pavilion at the New York World's Fair
Royal Manor Souvenir Photo Holder
Down Beat Club Souvenir Photo Holder
Troop H
Banquet to Celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the Diocese of Nassau and the Bahamas including the Turks and Caicos Islands
Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Writers' Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection
1,978 items
Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition Collection
194 items
Théodore Etienne de St. Léger collection
128 items
Twentieth century Negro literature, or, A cyclopedia of thought on the vital topics relating to the American Negro, by one hundred of America's greatest Negroes.
120 items
Grenada Plantation Records
109 items
Miscellaneous American Letters and Papers
92 items
Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile; exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali ; and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe
90 items
Schomburg Menu Collection
86 items
One hundred years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
80 items
Haiti : miscellaneous collections
73 items
Sermons, addresses and reminiscences and important correspondence, with a picture gallery of eminent ministers and scholars
73 items
Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities
67 items
Puerto Rican Slave Documents
67 items
The underground railroad: A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, & c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom
66 items
The American anti-slavery almanac
55 items
Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile: exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali ; and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe
55 items
The Afro-American press and its editors
54 items
Observations sur l'origine et les progrès du préjugé des colons blancs contre les hommes de couleur
54 items
Shivery family papers, 1865-1974
54 items
Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile
52 items
Women of distinction: remarkable in works and invincible in character
49 items
Progress of a race: or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust
45 items
Uncle Tom's Cabin: a tale of life among the lowly
44 items
The Crusader
42 items
Description de l'Afrique, contenant les noms, la situation & les confins de toutes ses parties, leurs rivières, leurs villes & leurs habitations, leurs plantes & leurs animaux; les mœurs, les coûtumes, la langue, les richesses, la religion & le gouvern...
42 items
General program of the sessions and anniversaries of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, held in St. Paul A.M.E. Church and the Auditorim, Columbus, Ohio, beginning May 7, 1900.
41 items
Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Vol I & II.
40 items
Miscellaneous Afro-Latin America Collection
40 items
Sénégambie et Guinée, par m. Amédée Tardieu ... Nubie, par m. S. Chérubini ... Abyssinie, par m. Noël Desvergers ...
39 items
Cuba and Porto Rico : with the other islands of the West Indies : their topography, climate, flora, products, industries, cities, people, political conditions, etc.
38 items
The college of life : or, Practical self-educator, a manual of self-improvement for the colored race forming an educational emancipator and a guide to success. Giving examples and achievements of successful men and women of the race as an incentive and...
37 items
Africa, containing a description of the manners and customs, with some historical particulars of the Moors of the Zahara, and of the Negro nations between the rivers Senegal and Gambia
37 items
The Africans at home; being a popular description of Africa and the Africans condensed from the accounts of African travellers from the time of Mungo Park to the present day
36 items
Brazil Miscellaneous Collections
35 items
Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824
34 items
St. Mark's United Methodist Church Collection
32 items
Oriental album: Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile
32 items
The gospel of slavery: a primer of freedom
32 items
Slavery and the Abolition of the Slave Trade collection
31 items
Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa. Being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H. B. M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855. Vol IV.
31 items
Ensayos politicos, sociales y economicos
30 items
L'Afrique francaise, l'empire de Maroc, et les deserts de Sahara: conquetes, victoires et decouvertes des Francais, depuis la prise d'Alger jusqu'a nos jours.
30 items
Relation universelle de l'Afrique, ancienne et moderne
30 items
Description de l'univers ...
28 items
Sol White's official base ball guide
28 items
Broadsides collection
27 items
Lights and shadows of African history: by the author of Peter Parley's tales.
27 items
History of the Eighth Illinois United States Volunteers.
26 items
Morgan's History of the New Jersey Conference of the A.M.E. Church, from 1872 to 1887
26 items
Illustrations of The highlands of Æthiopia
26 items
Cuba with pen and pencil
24 items
The Colored American Republican text book: a book of facts and figures, showing what the Republican Party has done for the Afro-American.
23 items
A half century of freedom of the Negro in Ohio
23 items
Glimpses of Africa, West and Southwest coast: containing the author's impressions and observations during a voyage of six thousand miles from Sierra Leone to St. Paul de Loanda and return, including the Rio del Ray and Cameroons rivers, and the Congo R...
23 items
Gouldtown, a very remarkable settlement of ancient date
23 items
Lake Ngami: or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa
23 items
A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810
21 items
Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself
21 items
Slavery in South Carolina and the ex-slaves: or, The Port Royal Mission
21 items
Brief report of the services rendered by the freed people to the United States Army in North Carolina: in the spring of 1862 after the battle of Newbern
19 items
Gilbert Academy and Agricultural College, Winsted, Louisiana: sketches and incidents, selections from journal.
19 items
O Muata Cazembe e os povos maraves, chevas, muizas, muembas, lundas e outros da Africa austral
19 items
The Philadelphia colored directory, 1910: a handbook of the religious, social, political, professional, business and other activities of the Negroes of Philadelphia.
19 items
Harlem, Mecca of the new Negro
19 items
Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the westcoast; thence across the continent,.
18 items
Para blancos y negros : ensayos politicos, sociales y economicos, Cuarta serie
18 items
Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853-1854-1856: Including a journey to the capital: with notices of the natural history of the country and of the present civilization of the people
18 items
The Anti-slavery record
18 items
The Uncle Tom's cabin almanack, or, Abolitionist memento. For 1853
18 items
The Crisis: a record of the darker races
18 items
Truth is stranger than fiction." An autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom") from 1789 to 1879
17 items
The history of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church in America: comprising its organization, subsequent development, and present status
17 items
Album // Female Society, for Birmingham, West-Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the Relief of British Negro Slaves
16 items
History of the First African Baptist Church : from its organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the centennial celebration, addresses, sermons, etc.
16 items
Die Lander und Volker der Erde; oder, Vollstandige Beschreibung aller funf Erdtheile, Vol. III, Africa
15 items
Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper
15 items
Jamaica; its past and present state
15 items
Journal of a residence in Ashantee, comprising notes and researches relative to the Gold Coast, and the interior of Western Africa, chiefly collected from Arabic mss
15 items
The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern: the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome
15 items
The present state of the Cape of Good Hope: or, A particular account of the several nations of the Hottentots: their religion, government, laws, customs, ceremonies, and opinions; their art of war, professions, language, genius, &c. Together with a sho...
15 items
Travels in the interior of Southern Africa
15 items
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Vol. 8
14 items
Twenty years in public life, 1890-1910 : North Carolina-Tennessee
14 items
Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia; together with a description of the country and its various inhabitants
14 items
Lorraine Hansberry papers
14 items
Autographs for freedom
14 items
John Henrik Clarke Papers
14 items
A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa
14 items
A school history of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1890: with a short introduction as to the origin of the race : also a short sketch of Liberia.
14 items
Afrique australe, Cap de Bonne-Esperance, Congo, etc.: Afrique orientale, Mozamboque, Monomotapa, Zanguebar, Gallas, Kordofan, etc., Afrique centrale, Darfour, Soudan, Bornou, Tombouctou, Grand desert de Sahara, Empire de Maroc
14 items
The Modern Voyager and Traveller, through Europe, Asia, Africa, & America
14 items
The New Negro : an interpretation
14 items
The tragedy of the Negro in America : a condensed history of the enslavment, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the Negro race in the United States of America
14 items
Lights and shadows of African history: by the author of Peter Parley's tales
13 items
Narrative of discovery and adventure in Africa, from the earliest ages to the present time
13 items
Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions
13 items
Oshielle, or, Village life in the Yoruba country; from the journals and letters of a catechist there, describing the rise of a Christian church in an African village.
13 items
Second voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, par le cap de Bonne-esperance, dans les annees 1783, 84 et 85. Tome Premier
13 items
The Haitian revolution, 1791 to 1804: or, Side lights on the French revolution.
13 items
Travels, researches, and missionary labors, during an eighteen years' residence in Eastern Africa. Together with journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia and Khartum; and a coasting voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado
13 items
James Baldwin papers
13 items
The Earl Conrad/Harriet Tubman Research Materials
13 items
Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa
12 items
Picture of slavery in the United States of America
12 items
The human heart illustrated by nine figures of the heart; representing the different stages of life, and two death-bed scenes: the wicked and the righteous
12 items
The wild sports of Southern Africa: being the narrative of an expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the chief Moselekatse, to the tropic of Capricorn
12 items
Barbara Mae Watson papers
12 items
Voyage a Meroe, au fleuve Blanc, au-dela de Fazoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennar, a Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis; fait dans les annees 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822
12 items
A Geographical present: being descriptions of the several countries of Africa
11 items
Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country
11 items
Savage Africa; being the narrative of a tour in equatorial, southwestern and northwestern Africa; with notes on the habits of the gorilla; on the existence of unicorns and tailed men; on the slave-trade; on the origin, character and capabilities of the...
11 items
The Child's anti-slavery book: containing a few words about American slave children, and stories of slave life
11 items
Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the London Missionary Society; being a narrative of a second journey in the interior of that country
11 items
The Book of Travels in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
11 items
From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol; or, The first and only Negro representative in Congress from the Old Dominion
11 items
George W. Westerman Papers
10 items
Williamson, Harry A. Papers (Additions)
10 items
Excursions in Western Africa, and Narrative of A Campaign in Kaffir-Land, on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief
10 items
Narrative of a journey to the Zoolu country, in South Africa
10 items
Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique
10 items
The Philadelphia Negro; a social study, by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton.
10 items
Southern Africa. A geography and natural history of the country, colonies, and inhabitants from the Cape of Good Hope to Angola.
10 items
The official theatrical world of colored artists: national directory and guide
10 items
Vida de J. J. Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo
10 items
Life at the South: or, "Uncle Tom's cabin" as it is
9 items
A narrative of travels in Northern Africa, in the years 1818, 19, and 20 : accompanied by geographical notices of the course of the Niger
9 items
Harry A. Williamson papers
9 items
History of Madagascar: embracing the progress of the Christian mission and an account of the persecution of the native Christians.
9 items
Leaven for doughfaces: or, Threescore and ten parables touching slavery
9 items
Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816
9 items
Selected items from "Lest We Forget" exhibition
9 items
Slavery resolutions
9 items
The Suppressed book about slavery! Prepared for public 1857, never published until the present time
9 items
History of the Colored race in America
8 items
Onkel Toms (Pastor Josiah Hensons) lefnadshistoria fran 1789 till 1877, berattad af honom sjelf
8 items
Our old folks
8 items
Recollections of seventy years
8 items
Stimpson's Boston directory; containing the names of the inhabitants, their occupations, places of business, and dwelling houses, and the city register, with lists of the streets, lanes and wharves, the city officers, public offices and banks, and othe...
8 items
The Life, trial and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Brown of Ossawatomie," with a full account of the attempted insurrection at Harper's Ferry
8 items
The colored man in the Methodist Episcopal Church
8 items
The history of Dahomy, an inland Kingdom of Africa
8 items
The history of Jamaica or, General survey of the antient and modern state of the island: with reflections on its situation, settlements, inhabitants, climate, products, commerce, laws and government, illustrated with copper plates, Vol. II
8 items
The looking-glass: being a true report and narrative of the life, travels and labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a colored clergyman; embracing a period of time from the year 1812 to 1854, and including his visit to western Africa
8 items
The slave states of America
8 items
Travels in Africa, performed during the years 1785, 1786, and 1787, in the western countries of that continent....
8 items
Twelve years a slave
8 items
A slave's adventures toward freedom; not fiction, but the true story of a struggle
8 items
A voyage to Senegal; or, Historical, philosophical, and political memoirs relative to the discoveries, establishments and commerce of Europeans inthe Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Blanco to the river of Sierra Leone
8 items
C. G. A. Oldendorps Geschichte der Mission der evangelischen Bruder auf den caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan. Herausgegeben durch Johann Jakob Bossart. Mit sieben Kupfertafeln.
7 items
Episodios de las guerras de independencia de Cuba, en que tomo parte principal Antonio Maceo
7 items
Histoire complete des voyages et decouvertes en Afrique, ...
7 items
The Legion of liberty! : and force of truth, containing the thoughts, words, and deeds of some prominent apostles, champions and martyrs.
7 items
Life of Charles T. Walker, D. D. : ("The Black Spurgeon"), pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City
7 items
John Henrik Clarke papers
7 items
The West India sketch book : in two volumes ; vol. I[-II]
7 items
The first Colored Baptist church in North America. Constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788
7 items
Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the Missionary Society
7 items
Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima countries, in Western Africa
7 items
Travels in the interior of Africa, to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia; performed by command of the French Government, in the year 1818
7 items
The stolen children; a narrative compiled from authentic sources
7 items
A voyage to the river Sierra-Leone, on the coast of Africa; containing an account of the trade and productions of the country, and of the civil and religious customs and manners of the people; in a series of letters to a friend in England
7 items
Street cries of an old southern city
6 items
The Florida exiles and the war for slavery: or, The crimes committed by our government against the maroons, who fled from South Carolina and other slave states, seeking protection under Spanish laws
6 items
The history, civil and commercial, of the British West Indies
6 items
Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope, into the interior parts of Africa : including many interesting anecdotes; with elegant plates, descriptive of the country and inhabitants
6 items
An historical account of the black empire of Hayti: comprehending a view of the principal transactions in the revolution of Saint Domingo; with its ancient and modern state
6 items
The History of Prince Lee Boo: to which is added the life of Paul Cuffee, a man of colour, also some account of John Sackhouse, the Esquimaux
6 items
The Liberty bell
6 items
American slave trade: or, An account of the manner in which the slave dealers take free people from some of the United States of America, and carry them away
6 items
Death struggles of slavery : being a narrative of facts and incidents, which occured in a British colony, during the two years immediately preceding Negro emancipation
6 items
Faits relatifs a la traite des noirs
6 items
Gleanings in Africa; exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope and surrounding country
6 items
Lobi Ludolfi alias Leut=holf dicti Historia aethiopica, sive Brevis & succincta descriptio regni Habessinorvm, quod vulgo male Presbyteri Iohannis vocatur
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L'Affrique et le peuple affriquain, consideres sous tous leurs rapports avec notre commerce & nos colonies; De l'abus des privileges exclusifs, & notamment de celui de la Compagnie du Senegal
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Asadata Dafora papers
6 items
Narrative of Henry Watson, a fugitive slave. Written by himself
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The Negro problem solved, or, Africa as she was, as she is, and as she shall be: Her curse and her cure
6 items
Nubia and Abyssinia: comprehending their civil history, antiquities, arts, religion, literature, and natural history
6 items
Papers relating to captured Negroes part I, [II]
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Recueil de vues des lieux principaux de la colonie francoise de Saint-Domingue,
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The kidnapped and the ransomed
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My southern home: or, The South and its people
5 items
A Sabbath scene
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A history of the West Indies, containing the natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history of each island
5 items
A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper : from American slavery
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A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory coasts
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A peep into Uncle Tom's cabin
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A voyage in the West Indies: containing various observations made during a residence in Barbadoes, and several of the Leeward Islands; with some notices and illustrations relative to the city of Paramarabo, in Surinam
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Africa explored; or, A judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa
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Aunt Sally; or, The cross the way of freedom
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Biography and achievements of the colored citizens of Chattanooga, 1904
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History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
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Les voyages du Sieur le Maire aux Iles Canaries, Cap-verd, Senegal, et Gambie
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My southern home, or, The south and its people
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Narrative of Joanna, an emancipated slave of Surinam
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Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa, by the River Niger, in the steam-vessels Quorra and Alburkah, in 1832, 1833 and 1834
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Nautilus Insurance Company Slavery Era Ledgers, 1845-2002 bulk (1845-1888).
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The Pine Tree Mission
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Precis historique de la traite des noirs et de l'esclavage colonial, contenant: l'origine de la traite, ses progres, son etat actuel, et un expose des horreurs produits par le despotisme des colons
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Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695. 1696. & 1697. aux cotes d'Afrique, detroit de Magellan, Bresil, Cayenne et isles Antilles, par une escadre des vaisseaux du roi, commandee par m. de Gennes.
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Shadow and sunshine
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Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828
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Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
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A general description of the people of Africa, including a more particular account of the manners, customs, and curiosities, of the inhabitants of Egypt, Barbary, Morocco, Guinea, Congo, Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, and Abyssinia
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Middleton "Spike" Harris slavery and abolition collection,1718-1876
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Silvia Dubois, (now 116 years old) : a biografy of the slav who whipt her mistress and gand her fredom
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The Okavango River; a narrative of travel, exploration and adventure
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The highlands of Aethiopia
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A narrative of the life of Rev. Noah Davis, a colored man, written by himself, at the age of fifty-four
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Travels in Brazil
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Travels in southern Africa in the years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806
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Weeden's history of the Colored people of Louisville; with an appendix containing letters from leading white citizen[s] touching upon Colored people's interests
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James Reese Europe collection
4 items
Ella Baker Papers
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A voyage to Africa with some account of the manners and customs of the Dahomian people
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Africa redeemed : or, The means of her relief illustrated by the growth and prospects of Liberia
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Church of the Crucifixion, Philadelphia, Pa., semi-centennial, May, 1847-May, 1897
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Explorations in South-west Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. By Thomas Baines.
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Four years' residence in the West Indies
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Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue. Ecrite particulierement sur des memoires manuscrits du P. Jean-Baptiste le Pers, Jesuite, missionnaire a Saint Domingue, & sur les pieces originales, qui se conservent au Depot de la marine
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History of the A.M.E. Zion Church in America; founded in 1796, in the city of New York
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Autobiography of James L. Smith
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An autobiography; the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist; containing an account of her life work of faith, and her travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an independent missionary
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Modern history; or, the present state of all nations
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Der Negeraufstand auf Jamaica; oder, Todeskampfe des Sclaventhums
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New travels into the interior parts of Africa, by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, in the years 1783, 84 and 85
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Revelations of a slave smuggler: being the autobiography of Capt. Rich'd Drake, an African trader for fifty years, from 1807-1857
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Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal history
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A narrative of the expedition to Algiers in the year 1816, under the command of the Right Hon. Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth
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A red record. Tabulated statistics and alleged causes of lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894. Respectfully submitted to the nineteenth century civilization in "the land of the free and the home of the brave"
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Account of a shooting excursion on the mountains near Dromilly estate, in the parish of Trelawny, and island of Jamaica, in the month of October 1824.
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Account of the capture of Recife
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Active service, or, Religious work among U.S. soldiers
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An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added an account of the present state of medicine among them
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Annual report of the American Colonization Society, with minutes of the annual meeting and of the Board of Directors
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Anthony Burns, a history
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James Weldon Johnson Community Centers, Inc. records
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Autographs for freedom
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American Negro monographs : historical and educational papers. v. 1, nos. 1-4; April 1910-March 1911.
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Experience and personal narrative of Uncle Tom Jones, who was for forty years a slave
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Five years' residence in the West Indies
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Lands of the slave and the free: or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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Letters on the Colonization Society; and on its probable results; under the following heads: the origin of the society; increase of the coloured population; manumission of slaves in this country; declarations of legislatures, and other towns
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Military services rendered by the Haitians in the North and South American wars for independence; Savannah, Georgia, 1779; Columbia, South America, 1815
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The Cavalla Messenger
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Narrative of William W. Brown : an American slave
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Narratives of the sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, sons of a soldier of the revolution, during a captivity of more than twenty years among the slaveholders of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of North America
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Six years of a traveller's life in Western Africa
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Smiley-Polk Family documents
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Solomon Crow's Christmas pockets and other tales
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Souvenirs de la campagne du Dahomey
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St. Domingo, of Het land der zwarten in Hayti en deszelfs omwenteling
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The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons
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The penitential tyrant; or, Slave trader reformed: a pathetic poem, in four cantos.
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The white man's grave: a visit to Sierra Leone, in 1834
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Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the Missionary Society
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Travels in the interior districts of Africa, performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association in the years 1795, 1796 and 1797
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United States atrocities : lynch law
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Voyages et Decouvertes dans L'Afrique Centrale et L'Afrique Septentrionale
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Waikna or, adventures on the Mosquito shore
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Proceedings of the semi-centenary celebration of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Cincinnati held in Allen Temple, February 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1874: with an account of the rise and progress of the colored schools; also a list of the charitabl...
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Reflections on the causes that led to the formation of the Colonization Society: with a view of its probable results
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Africa in brief
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The life of Toussaint L'Ouverture : the Negro patriot of Hayti ; comprising an account of the struggle for liberty in the island, and a sketch of its history to the present period
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Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African: To which are prefixed, memoirs of his life
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Authentic and impartial narrative of the tragical scene which was witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August last, when fifty-five of its inhabitants (mostly women and children) were inhumanly massacred by the blacks!
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Universal Negro Improvement Association miscellaneous
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Sermons delivered by Bishop Daniel A. Payne : before the General Conference of the A.M.E. Church, Indianapolis, Ind., May, 1888
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White Rose Mission and Industrial Association collection 1899-1981
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Sermons on several occasions, Vol. 1
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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg papers
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Slave life in Georgia; a narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England
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Anti-slavery almanac, 1846
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Slavery illustrated in its effects upon woman and domestic society
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Songs sung by the famous Canadian Jubilee Singers, the Royal Paragon Male Quartette and Imperial orchestra ; five years' tour of Great Britain, three years' tour of United States
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The Malcolm X collection : papers
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Bond and free: : or, Yearnings for freedom, from my Green Brier House : Being the story of my life in bondage, and my life in freedom
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The African preacher: An authentic narrative
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The Negro in the Christian pulpit : or, The two characters and two destinies : as delineated in twenty-one practical sermons.
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The New England anti-slavery almanac, for 1841
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The envoy. From free hearts to the free
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The sunflower: class of June 1915
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The history of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone, including the expedition to Cuba, for the purpose of procuring Spanish chasseurs; and the state of the island of Jamaica for the last
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The proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica, in regard to the Maroon negroes: published by order of the Assembly
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Description generale, historique, geographique et physique de la colonie de Surinam.
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The sports of Negro children
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Thirty years a slave. From bondage to freedom. The institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter. Autobiography of Louis Hughes.
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Die Sklavenmacht. Blicke in die Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Zur Erklarung der Rebellion von 1860-65
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Transactions of the Missionary Society.
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Travels into the inland parts of Africa: containing a description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the River Gambia; their trade, habits, customs, language, manners, religion and government; the power, disposition and charac...
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Travels into the interior parts of Africa by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, in the years 1780, 8l, 82, 83, 84, and 85. Translated from the French. Illustrated with 12 elegant copper-plates.
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Las Dos Antillas Political Club minutes, 1892-1898.
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Ecclesia Africana sub primate Carthaginiensi ... opus continens dissertationes quatuor, in quarum prima agitur de exordio Africanae Ecclesiae ... in secunda de fide & ritibus Africanae Ecclesiae ... in tertia de Conciliis Africae ... in quarta de succe...
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U.S. Colored Infantry, 100th Regiment, Company "I" Collection
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Echoes from the gospel trumpet; three sermons and a paper.
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Voyage a l'Isle de France, a l'Isle de Bourbon, au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, etc. : Avec des observations nouvelles sur la nature & sur les hommes
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Riverton Houses collection
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Benjamin J. Davis papers
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Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke, during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of North America. Dictated by himself
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The narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman
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A narrative of a voyage to Surinam, of a residence there during 1805, 1806, and 1807, and of the author's return to Europe by the way of North America
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A narrative of events since the first of August, 1834, by James Williams, an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica
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Historical sketches of the slave trade and of its effects in Africa, addressed to the people of Great-Britain.
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The story of Archer Alexander : from slavery to freedom March 30, 1863
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The wife of his youth and other stories of the color line
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History of American conspiracies: a record of treason, insurrection, rebellion &c., in the United States of America, from 1760 to 1860
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Is Hayti decadent?
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An essay on the causes of the revolution and civil wars of Hayti: being a sequel to the political remarks upon certain French publications and journals concerning Hayti
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La guerre noire; conquête du Dahomey
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Life and adventures of Robert, the hermit of Massachusetts, who has lived 14 years in a cave, secluded from human society. Comprising, an account of his birth, parentage, sufferings, and providential escape from unjust and cruel bondage in early life -...
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Life of Isaac Mason as a slave.
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Richard B. Moore papers
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Lunsford Lane; or, Another helper from North Carolina
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Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a native of Africa, who was enslaved in childhood, and died in Boston, January 3, 1815, aged 65 years. By a lady of Boston
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Memories of childhood's slavery days.
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Poems
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James Haughton Papers
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My life in the South
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Narrative of the shipwreck of the Sophia, on the 30th of May, 1819, on the western coast of Africa, and of the captivity of a part of the crew in the desert of Sahara
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Naufrage de la frégate La Méduse : faisant partie de l'expédition du Sénégal en 1816; relation contenant les événemens qui ont eu lieu sur le radeau, dans le désert de Sahara, à Saint-Louis et au camp de Daccardisuivi d'un examen sous les rapports agri...
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Poems by John G. Whittier
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The greatness of Christ : and other sermons
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave
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Haitian revolution research materials
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history of the Maroons [microform] : from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone : including the expedition to Cuba for the purpose of procuring Spanish chasseurs : and the state of the island of Jamaica for the last ten...
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The history of the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave-trade by the British Parliament.
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The Light and truth of slavery : Aaron's history
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law of freedom and bondage in the United States
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Notes on Haiti, made during a residence in that republic
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The hotel tattler
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Notes taken during travels in Africa.
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History of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1880
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Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola papers
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Obi, or, The history of Three-fingered Jack : in a series of letters from a resident in Jamaica to his friend in England ...
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Harlem Neighborhoods Association records
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Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a native of Zoogoo, in the interior of Africa (a convert to Christianity), with a description of that part of the world
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The Black phalanx; a history of the negro soldiers of the United States in the wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65
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Bow in the cloud; or, The Negro's memorial : A collection of original contributions, in prose and verse, illustrative of the evils of slavery, and commemorative of its abolition in the British colonies.
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The doctrines and discipline of the A.M.E.church
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Our brothers and cousins: a summer tour in Canada and the States.
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The higher law, in its relations to civil government: with particular reference to slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
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W.E.B. Du Bois papers
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Catéchisme en Créole
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Eulogium on the life and character of William Wilberforce, Esq. delivered and published at the request of the people of color of the city of New York, twenty-second of October, 1833
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The narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa.
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Pactolus Prime
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Bill Gunn papers
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Nelam L. Hill papers
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Poems on miscellaneous subjects
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The rock of wisdom; an explanation of the sacred Scriptures.
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Poems on miscellaneous subjects
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Clotelle; or, The colored heroine, a tale of the Southern States.
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Poems on various subjects, religous and moral by Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784).
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The scourging of a race, and other sermons and addresses by W. Bishop Johnson.
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African miscellaneous collection
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Babette Edwards Education Reform in Harlem collection
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The travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia: containing I. The geographical description of all the kingdoms, and provinces of that empire ... II. Travels in Arabia Fælix ... III. An account of the kingdoms of Cambate, Gingiro, Alaba, and Dancali beyond Ethi...
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Flournoy Miller collection
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Proceedings of The Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa.
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Five hundred thousand strokes for freedom: a series of anti-slavery tracts, of which half a million are now first issued by the friends of the Negro
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Theodore II, le nouvel empire d'Abyssinie et les interets francais dans le sud de la Mer rouge.
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Thomas Clarkson : a monograph, being a contribution towards the history of the abolition of the slave-trade and slavery.
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave / written by himself.
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Public proceedings relating to Calvary church
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Courier of New Hampshire
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Travels through the interior provinces of Colombia, Vol. II
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Moorish Science Temple of America collection
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Richard Wright collection
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Truth stranger than fiction. Father Henson's story of his own life. With an introduction by Mrs. H.B. Stowe.
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Le Grand désert; ou, Itinéraire d'une caravane du Sahara au pays des Nègres (royaume de Haoussa)
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Rules for the Society of Negroes, 1693
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Religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, giving an account of her call to preach the gospel, revised and corrected from the original manuscript written by herself
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Universal Negro Improvement Association miscellaneous collection.
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Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations; submitting to His Majesty's consideration the evidence and information they have collected in consequence of his M...
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Who's who among the colored Baptists of the United States. Vol. 1
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Description de la Nigritie
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New York Colored Mission Annual Report
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Description geographique de la Guiane.
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Resume de l'histoire de St. Domingue (Republique d'Haiti): depuis sa decouverte jusqu a ce jour : orne du portrait du General Boyer, President de ce gouvernement.
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The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a slave and as a freeman. A narrative of real life.
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Revue des colonies
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Levensgeschiedenis van den Amerikaanschen slaaf William Wells Brown, Amerikaansch afgevaardigde bij het vredescongres te Parijs, 1849, door hem zelven beschreven
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Abolition of the African slave-trade, by the British Parliament. Abridged from Clarkson. Together with a brief view of the present state of the slave-trade and of slavery
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Voyage d' Iserts en Guinée et dans les iles Caraibes en Amerique, par Paul Erdman Isert ... Tires de sa correspondance avec ses amis.
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Liberia's offering: being addresses, sermons, etc.
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Saint-Domingue, ou Histoire de ses Révolutions; Révolte générale des Nègres. Massacre des Blancs.
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Voyage à Cayenne, dans les deux Amériques, et chez les anthropophages
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Life of Maumer Juno, of Charleston, S.C. A sketch of Juno (Waller) Seymour.
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A brief account of the African Christian church in New Bedford
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A collection from the newspaper writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers
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Voyages en Guinee et dans les iles Caraibes en Amerique
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Meta Warrick Fuller papers
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A coon alphabet
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Egbert Ethelred Brown papers
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Wanderings and adventures in the interior of Southern Africa.
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A history of the Amistad captives: being a circumstantial account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board; their voyage, and capture near Long Island, New York; with biographical sketches of each of the surviving Africa...
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A journal of the proceedings in the detection of the conspiracy formed by some white people, in conjunction with negro and other slaves, for burning the city of New-York in America, and murdering the inhabitants : which conspiracy was partly put in exe...
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Select sermons, Vol. 1, 4th ed.
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William Alexander Yancey papers
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Emancipation: its course and progress, from 1481 B.C. to 1875 A. D., with a review of President Lincoln's proclamations, the XIII amendment, and the progress of the freed people since emancipation; with a history of the Emancipation monument.
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Manuel de piete a l'usage des hommes de couleur et des Noirs.
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A semi-centenary discourse, with a history of the church
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Sketch of the life of the Rev. Charles B. Ray
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Ensayos politicos. Segunda serie.
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The oasis.
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Songs of Jamaica.
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Louisa Picquet, the octoroon; or, Inside views of southern domestic life
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Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, born a slave in St. Domingo
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One hundred distinguished leaders
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Addresses of his excellency, Grover Cleveland and Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama : delivered at Carnegie Hall, New York
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Speeches and letters
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Evidence upon oath touching the condition and treatment of the Negro population of the British West India colonies. Part I: Island of Jamaica. Taken before a Select Committee of the House of Lords, session 1832.
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African Methodist Episcopal Church Magazine
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Migration One-offs.
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Miscellaneous writings on slavery. By William Jay.
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Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa
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Sunshine and shadow of slave life. Reminiscences as told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" [pseud.]
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Narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper from American slavery
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American slavery and colour
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For the Presbyterian female of color's enterprising society in Baltimore
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An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa
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Free military school for applicants for commands of colored troops : no. 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Established by Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, John H. Taggart, late colonel 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, prece...
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An essay on colonization, particularly applied to the western coast of Africa, with some free thoughts on cultivation and commerce; also brief descriptions of the colonies already formed, or attempted, in Africa, including those of Sierra Leona and Bul...
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Ten years' wanderings among the Ethiopians; with sketches of the manners and customs of the civilized and uncivilized tribes, from Senegal to Gaboon. By Thomas J. Hutchinson.
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The Anglo-African magazine
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My recollections of African M.E. ministers, or, Forty years' experience in the African Methodist Episcopal church.
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La cause des esclaves negres et des habitans de la Guinee, portee au tribunal de la justice, de la religion, de la politique; ou, Histoire de la traite & de l'esclavage des negres: leur illegitimite, moyens de les abolir sans nuire ni aux colonies ni a...
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Autobiography of a fugitive Negro, his anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada & England.
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Vida de la venerable negra, la madre sor Theresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, de feliz memoria, 1757
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Narrative of Henry Box Brown : who escaped from slavery enclosed in a box 3 feet long and 2 wide, written from a statement of facts made by himself, with remarks upon the remedy for slavery.
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Narrative of James Williams, an American slave, who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama.
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Brownies' book
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Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam by Captain John G. Stedman
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Geschichte der Insel Hayti und ihres Negerstaats.
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Neuer Tugendspiegel; oder, Anecdoten und Characterzüge aus dem Jugendleben denkwuerdiger Personen, alter und neuer zeit; mit einer Auswahl verwandter Dichtungen
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