Black Americans and Slavery

Our Black American's and Slavery CD contains 106 books, including Black History, the History of Slavery, works by Black Authors (such as Charles Chesnutt, Frances Harper, and Frederick Douglass), and fiction about the Black experience.

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Table of Contents

Slavery

History of Slavery in the US
• American Scenes and Christian Slavery: a Recent Tour of 4000 Miles in the US by Ebenezer Davies
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by Thomas Gray, 1831
• The Sable Cloud: a Southern Tale with Northern Comments, 1861
• Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the US from Interviews with Former Slaves, 1941
• Introduction
• Volume 2 Arkansas
• part 1
• part 2
• part 5
• part 6
• part 7
• Volume 3 Florida
• Volume 4 Georgia part 1
• Volume 5 Indiana
• Volume 6, Kansas
• Volume 7 Kentucky
• Volume 8 Maryland
• Volume 9 Mississippi
• Volume 12 Ohio
Slave Biographies
• Biography of a Slave by Charles Thompson, 1875
• The Fugitive Blacksmith or Events in the History of James W.C. Pennington, 1849
• Harriet: the Moses of Her People by Sarah Bradford, 1886
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiana or Gustavus Vassa the African
• More Seeds of Knowledge or Another Peep at Charles, being an account of Charles's Progress in Learning about Black Slaves, etc. by Julia Corner
• My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer, 1898
• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
• Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, 1864
• Narrative of the  Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, 1772
• Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, 1844
• Narrative of Lunsford Lane, 1842
The Fugitive Slave Act and its Consequences
• The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act by L. Maria Child, 1860
• The Fugutive Slave Law. The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law. a sermon by Ichabod Spencer, 1850
• The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1856
Abolition
• The Abolitionists by John Hume, 1905
• American Negro Slavery by Ulrich Phillips
• The Anti-Slavery Examiner, 1836-1839
• part 1
• part 2
• part 3
• part 4
• The Anti-Slavery Crusade: a Chronicle of the Gathring Storm by Jesse Macy, 1919
• Appeal to Christian Women of the South [regarding slavery] by Angelina Emily Grimke
• A Child's Anti-Slavery Book
• Discours sur la necessite et les Moyens de Detruire l'Esclavage dan les Colonie by de Ladebat, 1788
• An Essay on Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species by Thomas Clarkson, 1786
• Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers by Elizabeth Andrew and Katharine Bushnell, 1907
• History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of Abolition of the Slave-Trade by the British Parliament by Thomas Clarkson 1839
• History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of Aboliton of the Slave-Trade by the British Parliament by Thomas Clarkson 1808
• Volume 1

Volume 2
• William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Arhcibald Grimke, 1891
Slavery and Near-Slavery outside the US
• The Black Man's Place in South Africa by Peter Nielsen
• History of Liberia by J.H.T. McPherson
• Lands of the Slave and the Free or Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Captain Henry Murray, 1857
• Observations upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Joseph Corry
• The Slave Trade by H.C. Carey
• Speech of Mr. Cushing of Massachusetts on the Right of Petition Connected with the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade, 1836
• Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law
• Thirty Years a Slave, Autobiography by Louis Hughes
• Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in British Colonies by T. Clarkson, 1823
• Twenty-two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward, 1856

Black History (post-slavery)

• Army Life of a Black Regiment by Thomas Higginson
• The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs
• A Century of Negro Migration by Carter Woodson
• The Condition of the South by Carl Schurz
• The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 by C.G. Woodson, 1917
• The Future of the Colored Race in America by William Aikman (written during the Civil War) (short)
• History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, 1899 by Edward Johnson
• History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Edmund G. Ross
• The Journal of Negro History edtied by Carter G. Woodson, volume 1, no. 1, Jan. 1916
• The Negro Problem
• A Social History of the American Negro by Benjamin Brawley, 1921
• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, 1892, 1893, 1894 by Ida Wells-Barnett
• Speeches of Jefferson Davis, delivered during the summer of 1858

Historical Documents

• The Emancipation Proclamation 1862
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 1863

Black Authors

• Linda Brent (1818-1896)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• William Wells Brown (1814-1884)
• The Anti-Slavery Harp: a Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings, compiled by William W. Bown, a fugitive slave, 1848
• Clotel or the President's Daughter, 1853
• Clotelle a Tale of the Southern States
• Clotelle or The Colored Heroine
• Narrative of William W. Brown, 1847
• W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963)
• The Conservation of Races (short)
• Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, 1890
• The Negro, 1915
• The Souls of Black Folk
• Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
• Frederick Douglass, 1899
• The House Behind the Cedars
• The Marrow of Tradition, 1901
• The Wife or His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, 1899
• Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
• My Bondage and My Freedom
• Articles: My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Frederick Douglass 1899 by Charles Chestnutt
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
• Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted
• Minnie's Sacrifice
• Poems
• Sowing and Reaping, a Temperance Novel
• Trial and Triumph
• James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
• The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
• Up From Slavery
• Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
• Poems

Other Fiction about the Black Experience in America

• Warren T. Ashton
• Hatchie the Guardian Slave or The Heiress of Bellevue, 1853
• Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908)
• Uncle Remus
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
• Betty's Bright Idea
• Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Queer Little Folks
• Sunny Memories
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Harriet Wilson (1808-1870)
• Our Nig or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

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