African-American Books
Samantha Among the Colored Folks
Marietta HolleyShe is a great case for artificial flowers, and ribbin loops, and fringes. And the flowers that wuz a blowin’ out on her bunnet that day would have gone a good ways towards fillin’ a half-bushel baske..
The year of jubilee
Nathaniel S. PrimePerhaps the most plausible argument in support of American slavery, (and it is one that has been newly discovered, for it was first introduced into Congress on the Missouri question,) is, that the New..
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
Ignatius SanchoThe extraordinary Negro, whose Life I am about to write, was born A. D. 1729, on board a ship in the Slave trade, a few days after it had quitted the coast of Guinea for the Spanish West-Indies; and, ..
The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South
Winfield H. CollinsIn the preparation of these pages an effort has been made to discover and present the truth in regard to the Negro in the South. The first three chapters need not be considered an attempt at justifica..
Lynch-law
James Elbert CutlerIt is a disgrace to our civilization that men can be put to death by painful methods, which our laws have discarded as never suitable, and without the proofs of guilt which our laws call for in any ca..
The Negro Migrant in Pittsburgh
Abraham EpsteinThe main purpose of this study was not merely the attempt at a piece of research. The writer undertook it originally in the early spring as a student volunteer with the sole aim of doing his share in ..