Freedmen -- Bibliography

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• Societies After Slavery: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South Africa, and the British West Indies (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2002), ed. by Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, and Aims McGuinness (searchable page images at Pitt)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Extracts From Letters of Teachers and Superintendents of the New-England Educational Commission for Freedmen (1864), by New England Freedmen's Aid Society (page images at MOA)
• The Industry of the Freedmen of America, by National Freedmen's Aid Union (page images at MOA)
• The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1992), ed. by Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher (searchable page images at Pitt)
• The Position of the Republican and Democratic Parties: A Dialogue Between a White Republican and a Colored Citizen (ca.1868), by Union Republican Congressional Committee (page images at MOA)
• Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, November 3, 1863, To Take Into Consideration the Condition of the Freed People of the South (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1863), by Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association
  • page images at MOA
  • multiple formats at Google
• Report on the Condition of the South (1865), by Carl Schurz (Gutenberg text)
• "White Man Bery Unsartin"; "Nigger Haint Got No Friends, No How"; The Blackest Chapter in the History of the Republican Party: The Men Who Robbed and Combined to Rob the Freedmen of Their Hard Earnings (Washington: J. Shillington, ca. 1878), by F. Colburn Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Woman's Life-Work: Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland (Cincinnati: Walden and Stowe, 1882), by Laura S. Haviland (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Woman's Life-Work: Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland (Cincinnati: L.S. Haviland, 1881), by Laura S. Haviland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Woman's Life-Work: Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland, by Laura S. Haviland (Gutenberg text)

• Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. M. E. Church (Xenia, OH: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881), by David Smith, contrib. by David Alexander Payne (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom, by Lucy A. Delaney
  • HTML at nypl.org
  • HTML at UNC
• Shadow and Sunshine, by Eliza Suggs
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com
• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, A Colored Man, Local Preacher and Missionary (1859), by G. W. Offley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man, by Noah Davis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Memoirs of Margaret Jane Blake of Baltimore, Md., and Selections in Prose and Verse. (Philadelphia: Press of Innes & Son, 1897), by Sarah R. Levering
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML and TEI at UNC

• Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815 (Boston: James Loring, 1832), by Rebecca Warren Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man, by Henry Clay Bruce (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman (Rochester, NY: William Alling, 1857), by Austin Steward
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML and page images at LOC

• Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML at TEI at UNC)

• Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911), by I. E. Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Syracuse: William T. Hamilton, 1856), by Kate E. R. Pickard, contrib. by Samuel J. May and William Henry Furness (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C., by Lunsford Lane (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom, by Louis Hughes
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML at LOC
  • Gutenberg text

• Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents (Bournemouth, Eng.: W. Mate & Sons, 1909), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Adventures of Congo in Search of His Master: An American Tale, Containing a True Account of a Shipwreck and Interspersed With Anecdotes Found on Facts, by Mrs. John Farrar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Lost Hero (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1893), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Herbert D. Ward, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Memoirs of Margaret Jane Blake of Baltimore, Md., and Selections in Prose and Verse. (Philadelphia: Press of Innes & Son, 1897), by Sarah R. Levering
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML and TEI at UNC

• A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man, by Noah Davis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, A Colored Man, Local Preacher and Missionary (1859), by G. W. Offley (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815 (Boston: James Loring, 1832), by Rebecca Warren Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man, by Henry Clay Bruce (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man, by Henry Clay Bruce (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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 (New York: V. Colyer, 1864), by Vincent Colyer (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• Sierra Leone: or, The Liberated Africans, in a Series of Letters From a Young Lady to Her Sister in 1833 and 34 (London: Longman and Co., 1835), by Mary Church (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne, Written From the Sea Islands of South Carolina, 1862-1884 (Cambridge, MA: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1912), by Laura M. Towne, ed. by Rupert Sargent Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negroes at Port Royal, by Edward Lillie Pierce (page images at MOA)

• From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom, by Louis Hughes
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML at LOC
  • Gutenberg text

• Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents (Bournemouth, Eng.: W. Mate & Sons, 1909), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C., by Lunsford Lane (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911), by I. E. Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. M. E. Church (Xenia, OH: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881), by David Smith, contrib. by David Alexander Payne (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman (Rochester, NY: William Alling, 1857), by Austin Steward
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML and page images at LOC

• Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (Londen: Methuen and Co., 1902), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)

• ABC for Book Collectors (8th edition, 2004), by John Carter and Nicolas Barker (PDF with commentary at ilab.org)

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report (original 1998 report, plus amended version of 2009), by IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (HTML and PDF at ifla.org)

• Bulletin of Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• The Library (partial serial archives)
• The New Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Studies in Bibliography (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.