Biography Books

History of the American Negro in the Great World War

W. Allison Sweeney

History of the American Negro in the Great World War is a biographical work by W. Allison Sweeney narrating the participation of Negro's in the word war. Preface from the book follows.Lies the st..

History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War

Edward A. Johnson

History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War is a collection of biographical work narrating the participation of Negro Soldiers in the war. Many causes led up to the Spanish-American war. Cub..

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author, Harriet Ann ..

Music and Some Highly Musical People

James M. Trotter

James Monroe Trotter (1842-1892) was born into slavery in Mississippi. His mother escaped with Trotter and his brother via the Underground Railroad, and they settled in Cincinnati, where Trotter becam..

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. The narrative is argued to be a va..

Booker T. Washington

Emmett J. Scott

Booker T. Washington is a biographical work by his secretary Emmett J. Scott. This is not a biography in the ordinary sense. The exhaustive "Life and Letters of Booker T. Washington" remains stil..

Margaret of Anjou

Jacob Abbott

Margaret of Anjou was the Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the se..

Mary S. Peake

Lewis C. Lockwood

Mary Smith Peake, born Mary Smith Kelsey (1823-February 22, 1862), was an American teacher, humanitarian and a member of the black elite in Hampton, best known for starting a school for the children o..