Writers' Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection

966 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

Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition Collection

97 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

Miscellaneous American Letters and Papers

86 items

One hundred years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; or, The centennial of African Methodism

81 items

Sermons, addresses and reminiscences and important correspondence, with a picture gallery of eminent ministers and scholars

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Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities

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Puerto Rican Slave Documents

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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, as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the aut...

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Haiti: Miscellaneous Collections

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A new Negro for a new century: an accurate and up-to-date record of the upward struggles of the Negro race. The Spanish-American War, causes of it; vivid descriptions of fierce battles; superb heroism and daring deeds of the Negro

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The American anti-slavery almanac

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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

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The Afro-American press and its editors

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Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile

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Women of distinction: remarkable in works and invincible in character

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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

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Uncle Tom's Cabin: a tale of life among the lowly

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Umbstandliche und eigentliche Beschreibung von Africa, und denen darzu gehorigen Konigreichen und Landschaften, als Egypten, Barbarien, Libyen, Biledulgerid, dem Lande der Negros, Guinea, Ethiopien, Abyssina, und den Africanischen Insulen; zusamt deren...

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The crusader

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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...

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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.

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Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Vol I & II.

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Sénégambie et Guinée, par m. Amédée Tardieu ... Nubie, par m. S. Chérubini ... Abyssinie, par m. Noël Desvergers ...

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Miscellaneous Afro-Latin America Collection

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Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal history

38 items

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 ins...

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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

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The Negro in business

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Shivery family papers, 1865-1974

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Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824.

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Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile.

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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.

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Ensayos politicos, sociales y economicos.

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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.

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Relation universelle de l'Afrique, ancienne et moderne. Ou l'on voit ce qu'il y a de remarquable, tant dans la terre ferme que dans lesiles, avec ce que le roy a fait de memorable contre les corsaires de Barbarie, &c.

30 items

Description de l'univers ...

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Sol White's official base ball guide; edited by H. Walter Schlichter.

28 items

Brazil Miscellaneous Collections

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Broadsides collection

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Lights and shadows of African history: by the author of Peter Parley's tales.

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History of the Eighth Illinois United States Volunteers.

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Middleton A. "Spike" Harris papers, 1929-1977.

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Morgan's History of the New Jersey Conference of the A.M.E. Church, from 1872 to 1887 : and of the several churches, as far as possible, from date of organization, with biographical sketches of members of the conference.

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gospel of slavery: a primer of freedom.

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The highlands of Ethiopia.

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Cuba with pen and pencil.

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Colored American Republican text book : a book of facts and figures, showing what the Republican Party has done for the Afro-American.

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half century of freedom of the Negro in Ohio.

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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 ...

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Gouldtown, a very remarkable settlement of ancient date; studies of some sturdy examples of the simple life, together with sketches of early colonial history of Cumberland County and southern New Jersey and some early genealogical records, by William S...

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Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa.

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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; in which are included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa, visited ...

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Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself. With an introduction by Lucius C. Matlack. 3d stereotype ed.

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Slavery in South Carolina and the ex-slaves; or, The Port Royal Mission.

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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.

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Gilbert Academy and Agricultural College, Winsted, Louisiana: sketches and incidents, selections from journal.

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O Muata Cazembe e os povos maraves, chevas, muizas, muembas, lundas e outros da Africa austral. Diario da expedicao portuguesa comandada pelo major Monteiro e dirigida aquele imperador nos anos de 1831 e 1832.

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Philadelphia colored directory, 1910 : a handbook of the religious, social, political, professional, business and other activities of the Negroes of Philadelphia.

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Harlem, Mecca of the new Negro

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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,.

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Para blancos y negros : ensayos politicos, sociales y economicos. Cuarta serie.

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The Uncle Tom's cabin almanack, or, Abolitionist memento. For 1853.

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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.

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The Anti-slavery record

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Truth is stranger than fiction." An autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom") from 1789 to 1879. With a preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, introductory notes by Wendell Phillips and John G. Whittier, and an ...

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The history of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church in America: comprising its organization, subsequent development, and present status

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Album // Female Society, for Birmingham, West-Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the Relief of British Negro Slaves.

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History of the First African Baptist Church : from its organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the centennial celebration, addresses, sermons, etc.

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Die Lander und Volker der Erde; oder, Vollstandige Beschreibung aller funf Erdtheile, Vol. III - Africa.

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Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper

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Jamaica; its past and present state.

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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. And information communicated by the Moslems of Guinea; to which is prefixed an accoun...

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history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern. The forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome. The African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States.

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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...

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Travels in the interior of Southern Africa.

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Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773.

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Twenty years in public life, 1890-1910 : North Carolina-Tennessee.

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Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia; together with a description of the country and its various inhabitants.

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A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa.

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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.

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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.

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Autographs for freedom

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Modern Voyager and Traveller, through Europe, Asia, Africa, & America.

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New Negro : an interpretation

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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.

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Lights and shadows of African history: by the author of Peter Parley's tales.

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Narrative of discovery and adventure in Africa, from the earliest ages to the present time.

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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.

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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.

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Second voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, par le cap de Bonne-esperance, dans les annees 1783, 84 et 85. Tome Premier.

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The Haitian revolution, 1791 to 1804; or, Side lights on the French revolution.

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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.

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Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa.

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Picture of slavery in the United States of America.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A Geographical present: being descriptions of the several countries 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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From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol; or, The first and only Negro representative in Congress from the Old Dominion. John Mercer Langston.

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Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country.

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Music and some highly musical people; containing brief chapters on 1. A description of music. 2. The music of nature. 3. A glance at the history of music. 4. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remar...

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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 ...

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The Book of Travels in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time.

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Child's anti-slavery book: containing a few words about American slave children. And stories of slave life.

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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.

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Excursions in Western Africa, and Narrative of A Campaign in Kaffir-Land, on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief.

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Narrative of a journey to the Zoolu country, in South Africa.

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Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique. Contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, l'origine, les moeurs, la religion & le gouvernement des habitans anciens & modernes: les guerres & les gouvernement singuliers qui y sont arrivez.Vol I - II.

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Philadelphia Negro; a social study, by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton.

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Southern Africa. A geography and natural history of the country, colonies, and inhabitants from the Cape of Good Hope to Angola. Together with notices of their origins, manners, habits, customs, traditions, superstitions, religious usages, languages, p...

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The Liberty bell. By friends of freedom.

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official theatrical world of colored artists : national directory and guide.

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Vida de J. J. Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo; con notas muy circunstanciadas sobre el origen, caracter y atrocidades de los principales gefes de aquellos rebeldes desde el principio de la insurreccion en 1791; traducid.

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narrative of travels in Northern Africa, in the years 1818, 19,and 20 : accompanied by geographical notices of the course of the Niger. With a chart of the routes, and a variety of coloured plates, illustrative of the costumes of the several natives of...

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History of Madagascar : embracing the progress of the Christian mission and an account of the persecution of the native Christians.

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Leaven for doughfaces; or, Threescore and ten parables touching slavery.

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Life at the South: or, "Uncle Tom's cabin" as it is. Being narratives, scenes, and incidents in the real "Life of the lowly."

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Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816

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Slavery resolutions.

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Suppressed book about slavery! Prepared for public 1857, never published until the present time.

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History of the Colored race in America : Containing also their ancient and modern life in Africa, modes of living, employments, customs, habits, social life, etc., the origin and development of slavery in the Old World, and its introduction on the Amer...

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Onkel Toms (Pastor Josiah Hensons) lefnadshistoria fran 1789 till 1877, berattad af honom sjelf. Med foretal af Harriet Beecher Stowe. Illustrerad upplaga. Ofversattning fran engelskan.

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Our old folks.

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Recollections of seventy years

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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...

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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.

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The colored man in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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history of Dahomy, an inland Kingdom of Africa.

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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.

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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.

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slave states of America. By J. S. Buckingham.

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Travels in Africa, performed during the years 1785, 1786, and 1787, in the western countries of that continent....

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Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana.

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slave's adventures toward freedom; not fiction, but the true story of a struggle.

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Selected items from "Lest We Forget" exhibition

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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.

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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.

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Episodios de las guerras de independencia de Cuba, en que tomo parte principal Antonio Maceo.

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Histoire complete des voyages et decouvertes en Afrique, ...

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Legion of liberty! : and force of truth, containing the thoughts, words, and deeds of some prominent apostles, champions and martyrs.

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Life of Charles T. Walker, D. D. : ("The Black Spurgeon"), pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City

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Relation d'une conspiration tramée par les nègres : dans l'îsle de S. Domingue.

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West India sketch book

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The first Colored Baptist church in North America. Constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788. With biographical sketches of the pastors.

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Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the Missionary Society.

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Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima countries, in Western Africa.

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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.

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stolen children; a narrative compiled from authentic sources.

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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.

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Observations sur l'origine et les progrès du préjugé des colons blancs contre les hommes de couleur

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Harry A. Williamson papers, 1831-1965

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John Henrik Clarke Papers

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Street cries of an old southern city.

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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.

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The history, civil and commercial, of the British West Indies.... With a continuation to the present time. 5th ed., with maps and plates. Atlas.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Barbara Mae Watson papers

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Africa and the American flag.

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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, and sell them as slaves in other of the states; and of the horrible cruelties practised in th...

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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. 3rd edition.

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Faits relatifs a la traite des noirs.

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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. With a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the colonists: soi...

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Iobi Ludolfi alias Leut=holf dicti Historia aethiopica, sive Brevis & succincta descriptio regni Habessinorvm, quod vulgo male Presbyteri Iohannis vocatur. In qua libris qvatvor agitur. I. De natura & indole regionis & incolarum. II. De regimine politi...

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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 . Ce que c'est qu'une societe se qualifiant d'Amis des noirs.

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Narrative of Henry Watson, a fugitive slave. Written by himself.

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Negro problem solved, or, Africa as she was, as she is, and as she shall be. Her curse and her cure Hollis Read.

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Nubia and Abyssinia: comprehending their civil history, antiquities, arts, religion, literature, and natural history.

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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, gravees par les soins de M. Ponce ... accompagnees de cartes et plans de la meme colonie, graves par les soins de M. Phelipeau ... le tout princepalement destine a l'ouv...

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Sabbath scene. By John G. Whittier. Illustrations by Baker, Smith and Andrew.

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A history of the West Indies, containing the natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history of each island; with an account of the missions instituted in those islands, from the commencement of their civilization, but more especially of the missions which ...

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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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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, by Vaillant ... [and others]

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Aunt Sally; or, The cross the way of freedom. A narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan.

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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; by Daniel A. Payne. Edited by Rev. C. S. Smith.

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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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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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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. Vol I & II

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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. 3rd edition.

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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. For the instruction o...

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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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George W. Westerman Papers

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The highlands of Aethiopia.

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kidnapped and the ransomed. Being the personal recollections of Peter Still and his wife "Vina," after forty years of slavery. By Mrs. Kate E. R. Pickard. With an introd. by Rev. Samuel J. May; and an appendix by William H. Furness, D.D.

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Travels in Brazil. 2d ed. Vol I - II.

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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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narrative of the life of Rev. Noah Davis, a colored man, written by himself, at the age of fifty-four.

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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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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. Wi...

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Autobiography of James L. Smith : including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc.

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Church of the Crucifixion, Philadelphia, Pa., semi-centennial, May, 1847-May, 1897. A historical discourse delivered by Rev. Henry L. Phillips.

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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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Modern history; or, the present state of all nations.

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Negeraufstand auf Jamaica; oder, Todeskampfe des Sclaventhums. (Ein Seitenstuck zu Onkel Tom's Hutte.) Actenmassige Darstellung der Bedruckungen, Ungerechtigkeiten, Verfolgungen und Grausamkeiten gegen die Sclaven und ihre.

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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. Translated from the French of Le Vaillant. Illustrated with a map, delineating the route of his present and former travels, and with twent...

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Slavery & Abolition Collection, 1700-1890

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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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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." By Miss Ida B. Wells.

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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. A series of papers by our post and regimental chaplains, with an introduction by John B. Ketchum. Edited by Rev. T.G. Steward.

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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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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. Also The surprising adventures of Wild Tom, of the island retreat, a fugitive Negro from South Carolina.

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Five years' residence in the West Indies. By Charles William Day.

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Williamson, Harry A. Papers (Additions)

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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 ... Addres...

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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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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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Revelations of a slave smuggler; being the autobiography of Capt. Rich'd Drake, an African trader for fifty years, from 1807-1857 ; during which period he was concerned in the transportation of half a million blacks from African coasts to America.

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Six years of a traveller's life in Western Africa. Vol I & II.

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Smiley-Polk Family documents, 1839-1993.

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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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colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons: to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans.

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penitential tyrant; or, Slave trader reformed: a pathetic poem, in four cantos.

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Asadata Dafora papers

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The white man's grave: a visit to Sierra Leone, in 1834. Vol I & II.

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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: under the following heads: The increase of the coloured population. The origin of the colonization society. The manumission of slaves ...

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Africa in brief.

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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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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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Sermons on several occasions. Volume 1.

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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. Edited by L. A. Chamerovzow.

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Anti-slavery almanac, 1846.

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Slaveowner complaint seeking restitution for hired slave, Lawrence County, Alabama, 1827.

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Slavery illustrated in its effects upon woman and domestic society.

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Statement showing the expenditure of the appropriation for the prohibition of the slave trade during the year 1826, and an estimate for 1827.

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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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African preacher. An authentic narrative. By the Rev. William S. White.

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Negro in the Christian pulpit : or, The two characters and two destinies : as delineated in twenty-one practical sermons.

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New England anti-slavery almanac, for 1841. Being the 65th year of American independence. Calculated for Boston and the eastern states.

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James Weldon Johnson Community Centers, Inc. records

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envoy. From free hearts to the free.

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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. Vol I - II.

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The loyalists and slavery in New Brunswick, by I. Allen Jack.

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new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man; recollections of H. C. Bruce.

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proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica, in regard to the Maroon negroes: published by order of the Assembly. To which is prefixed, an introductory account ...

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Lorraine Hansberry papersNEW

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Description generale, historique, geographique et physique de la colonie de Surinam.

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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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Sklavenmacht. Blicke in die Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Zur Erklarung der Rebellion von 1860-65. Von Theodor S. Ray.

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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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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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narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman. With introduction by Rev. Bishop Mallalieu, and commendatory notices from Rev. V. A. Cooper ... and Rev. Erastus Spaulding.

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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, by Baron Albert von Sack.

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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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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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story of Archer Alexander : from slavery to freedom March 30, 1863 by William G. Eliot.

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Is Hayti decadent?

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guerre noire; conquete 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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Lunsford Lane; or, Another helper from North Carolina. By the Rev. William G. Hawkins.

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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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My life in the South.

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Narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper from American slavery.

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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. With engravings. By Charles Cochelet, ancient paymaster-general in Catalonia, and on...

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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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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; illustrated by H. Billings.

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Poems

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greatness of Christ : and other sermons

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Autobiography of a fugitive Negro, his anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada & England.

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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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history of the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave-trade by the British Parliament.

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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. Negroes as slaves, as soldiers, and as citizens; together with a preliminary consideration of the unity of the human family, an historical sketch of Africa, and an account of the negro governments...

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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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African miscellaneous collection

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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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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, including the manners and customs of the inhabitants; Mahommah's early life, his education, his ...

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Richard Wright collection

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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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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 Malcolm X collection : papers

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The higher law, in its relations to civil government: with particular reference to slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law. By William Hosmer.

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

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Catechism for the religous instructions of persons of colour.

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Catéchisme en Créole.

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Asadata Dafora papers

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James Reese Europe collection

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The narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa.

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Ella Baker Papers

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The sunflower: class of June 1915

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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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Polyglotta Africana : or, A comparative vocabulary of nearly three hundred words and phrases in more than one hundred distinct African languages

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Ella Baker papers, 1926-1986.

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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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Proceedings of The Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa.

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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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Lorraine Hansberry papers

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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,1850.

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Courier of New Hampshire.

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Travels through the interior provinces of Colombia. By Colonel J. P. Hamilton. Vol II.

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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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Riverton Houses collection

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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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code noir; ou, Recueil des reglemens rendus jusqu'à present, concernant le gouvernement, l'administration de la justice, la police, la discipline & le commerce des negres dans les colonies françoises : et les conseils & compagnies établis à ce sujet.

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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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Benjamin J. Davis papers

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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. Par m.P.d.P., ancien conseiller au Conseil souverain de Senegal, & ensuite commandant du Fort Saint-Louis de Gregoy, au royaume de Juda, & de present gouverneur pour le roi de la ville Saint-Diesur-Loire. Enrichie de cartes.

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Report of the New York Colored Mission 1876.

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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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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. Naar den 5. Engelschen druk vertaald door M. Krijzer.

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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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The wife of his youth and other stories of the color line

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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. By Edward W. Blyden.

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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. Ouvrage orné de gravures, contenant le tableau général des déportés, la vie et les causes de l'exil de l'auteur; des notions particulières sur Collot et Billaud, sur les îles Sechel...

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Life of Maumer Juno, of Charleston, S.C. A sketch of Juno (Waller) Seymour.

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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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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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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 Africans...

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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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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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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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Richard B. Moore papers

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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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Southern horrors : lynch law in all its phases

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One hundred distinguished leaders

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Ella Baker papers

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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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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. Vol I & IV

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African Methodist Episcopal Church Magazine

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Middleton A. "Spike" Harris papers, 1929-1977.

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Migration One-offs.

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Almanach royal d'Hayti; pour l'année 1815, douzième de l'indépendance, et la quatrième du règne de Sa Majesté, présenté au roi, par P. Roux.

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Almanach royal d'Hayti; pour l'année bissextile 1820, dix-septième de l'indépendance, et la neuvième du règne de Sa Majesté, présenté au roi, par Buon.

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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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American slavery and colour, by William Chambers.

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For the Presbyterian female of color's enterprising society in Baltimore. A free will offering, by Charlotte Draper. For the benefit of Africa, the island of Corisca, in Western Africa. January 25, 1860...

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account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798: including cursory observations on the geology and geography of the southern part of that continent; the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vege...

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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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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 Bulama...

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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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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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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, preuves de leur illegitimite, moyens de les abolir sans nuire ni aux colon...

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Vida de la venerable negra, la madre sor Theresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, de feliz memoria, 1757 Volume II

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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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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave

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Moorish Science Temple of America collection

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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. Zunächst in Burgerschulen zum Vorlesen, oder auch neben der Schule zur Unterhaltung, Beleh...

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first annual report of the New York Committee of Vigilance for the year 1837 : together with important facts relative to their proceedings.

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