Black Americans and Slavery

Our Black American's and Slavery CD contains 174 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

• An Account of Some Principal Slae Insurrections by Joshua Coffin, 1860
• 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 Jefferson-Lemen Compact
• The Right of American Slavery by T.W. Hoit, 1860
• The Sable Cloud: a Southern Tale with Northern Comments, 1861
• Slavery and Four Years of War, volume 1 by Joseph Warren Keifer
• 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 3
• part 4
• part 5
• part 6
• part 7
• Volume 3 Florida
• Volume 4 Georgia
• part 1
• part 2
• part 3
• part 4
• Volume 5 Indiana
• Volume 6, Kansas
• Volume 7 Kentucky
• Volume 8 Maryland
• Volume 9 Mississippi
• North Carolina part 1
• Volume 12 Ohio
• Volume 13 Oklahoma
• Volume 14 South Carolina
• part 1
• part 2
• Volume 15 Tennessee

Slave Biographies

• Autographs for Freedom edited by Julia Griffiths
• Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
• 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 History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, related by Herself, 1831
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiana or Gustavus Vassa the African
• Mary S. Peake the Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe by Rev. Lewis Lockwood, 1862
• Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Coloured Woman, 1863
• Memories of Chlidhood's Slavery Days by Annie L. Burton
• 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 Rev. Noah Davis, 1859
• 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
• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom or the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
• A Slave Girl's Story, Autobiogrphy of Kate Drmgold, 1898
• The Story of Mattie J. Jackson, 1866
• Walker's Appeal, With a Brief Sketch of His Life by Henry Highland Garnet, also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the USA, 1848

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
• The Underground Railroad by William Still

Abolition

• The Abolition of Slavery, the Right of the Government Under the War Power by William Lloyd Garrion and others
• 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 Alphabet, 1847
• 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
• The Battle of Principles, a Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Newell Dwight Hillis, 1912
• 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
• No Compromise with Slavery by William Lloyd Garrison
• Suppression of the African Slae Trade to the US 1638-1870, volume 1
• 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
• Captain Canot or 20 Years of an African Slaver by Brantz mayer, 1854
• 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 and Literature (post-slavery)

• The American Prejudice Against Color by William G. Allen, 1853
• Army Life of a Black Regiment by Thomas Higginson
• Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics int he South by Timothy Thomas Fortune, 1884
• The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs
• A Century of Negro Migration by Carter Woodson
• The Colored Inventor, a Record of 50 Years by Henry Baker
• The Colored Regulars in the US Army by Chaplain T.G. Stewart
• The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the US by Martin Delany, 1852
• The Condition of the South by Carl Schurz
• De la Literrature des negres (in French) by H. Gregoire
• The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 by C.G. Woodson, 1917
• The Facts of Reconstruction by John Lynch, 1913
• The Future of the Colored Race in America by William Aikman (written during the Civil War) (short)
• History of the American Negro in the Great World War by W. Allision Sweeney
• History of the Negro Race in American 1619-1880
• volume 1
• volume 2
• History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, 1899 by Edward Johnson
• History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Edmund G. Ross
• Integration of the Armed Forces 1940-1965 by Morris MacGregor (Defense Studies Series)
• The Journal of Negro History edtied by Carter G. Woodson,
• volume 1, 1916
• volume 2, 1917
• volume 3, 1918
• volume 4, 1919
• volume 5, 1920
• volume 6, 1921
• Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller
• Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence edited by Alice Moore Dunbar
• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson
• The Negro and the Nation by George Merriam, 1906
• 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
• Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading, compiled by james T. Haley, 1897
• Twentieth Century Negro Literature ed. D.w. Culp, 1902

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
• Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
• The Colonel's Dream
• The Conjure Woman
• Frederick Douglass, 1899
• The House Behind the Cedars
• The Marrow of Tradition, 1901
• The Wife of 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
• W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963)
• The Conservation of Races (short)
• Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, 1890
• The Negro, 1915
• The Quest of the Silver Fleece, a novel
• The Souls of Black Folk
• Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906)
• The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
• The Sport of the Gods
• The Complete Poems
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
• Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted
• Minnie's Sacrifice
• Poems
• Sowing and Reaping, a Temperance Novel
• Trial and Triumph
• Langston Hughes
• Mule-Bone, play (with Zora Hurston)
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Three Plays (Lawing and Jawing, Forty Yards, and Woofing)
• Mule-Bone, play (with Langston Hughes
• James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
• The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson
• Fifty Years and Other Poems
• Petroleum V. Nasby
• Swingin' Round the Cirkle
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
• Up From Slavery
• about Booker T. Washington
• Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe
• 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
• Mrs. Mary Eastman
• Aunt Phillis' Cabin or Southern Life As It Is, 1852
• Sutton E. Griggs
• Imperium in Imperio, a Study of the Negro Race Problem, a novel
• Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908)
• Mingo and Other Sketches in Black and Whtie
• 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
• about Harriet Beecher Stowe
• A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or an Essay on Slavery by a. Woodward, 1853
• Harriet Wilson (1808-1870)
• Our Nig or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black