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• The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1977), by Raymond Gavins (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond, by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia (historical handbook series, #33; 1961), by Joseph P. Cullen
  • illustrated HTML at National Park Service
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865, by Thomas Hughes (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life Gleanings, by Thomas Joseph Macon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Southern Girl in '61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator's Daughter, by Louise Wigfall Wright (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Southern Woman's Story, by Phoebe Yates Pember
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Falling Flag: Evacuation Of Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at Appomattox, by an Officer of the Rearguard (third edition; New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874), by Edward M. Boykin
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Lee Family Digital Archive
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia (historical handbook series, #33; 1961), by Joseph P. Cullen
  • illustrated HTML at National Park Service
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Recollections of the Evacuation of Richmond, April 2d, 1865, by John Archibald Campbell (HTML at supremecourthistory.org)

• Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia (historical handbook series, #33; 1961), by Joseph P. Cullen
  • illustrated HTML at National Park Service
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Life Gleanings, by Thomas Joseph Macon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The End of an Era, by John S. Wise (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The South's Battle Abbey (ca. 1896), by Confederate Memorial Association (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Southern Woman's Story, by Phoebe Yates Pember
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Catalogue of the Confederate Museum, of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society (Richmond: Ward and Duke, 1905), by Confederate Memorial Literary Society (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Memoriam Sempiternam (Richmond: Confederate Museum, 1896), by Confederate Memorial Literary Society, ed. by Virginia Armistead Garber (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher (New York: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by William E. Hatcher (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher (New York: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by William E. Hatcher (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher (New York: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by William E. Hatcher (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1977), by Raymond Gavins (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1977), by Raymond Gavins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide, Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself; With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery (Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849), by Henry Box Brown, contrib. by Charles Stearns (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written By Himself (first English edition; Manchester, UK: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851), by Henry Box Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide, Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself; With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery (Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849), by Henry Box Brown, contrib. by Charles Stearns (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written By Himself (first English edition; Manchester, UK: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851), by Henry Box Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Cousin Ann's Stories for Children (Philadelphia: J. M. McKim, 1849), by Ann Preston (page images at bsu.edu)

• The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1977), by Raymond Gavins (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1977), by Raymond Gavins (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher (New York: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by William E. Hatcher (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1977), by Raymond Gavins (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Voice From Richmond, and Other Addresses to Children and Youth (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, c1842), by Robert May (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Biography of Elder Lott Cary, Late Missionary to Africa; With an Appendix on the Subject of Colonization (Baltimore: Armstrong and Berry, 1837), by James B. Taylor, contrib. by John H. B. Latrobe (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Biography of Elder Lott Cary, Late Missionary to Africa; With an Appendix on the Subject of Colonization (Baltimore: Armstrong and Berry, 1837), by James B. Taylor, contrib. by John H. B. Latrobe (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of Jehudi Ashmun, Late Colonial Agent in Liberia; With An Appendix, Containing Extracts from his Journal and Other Writings; With a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Cary (Washington: James C. Dunn, 1835), by Ralph Randolph Gurley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide, Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself; With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery (Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849), by Henry Box Brown, contrib. by Charles Stearns (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written By Himself (first English edition; Manchester, UK: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851), by Henry Box Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith, by Philip Barrett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical (2 series, originally published 1850 and 1855, with annotations), by William Henry Foote
  • first series: HTML with commentary at roanetnhistory.org
  • second series: HTML with commentary at roanethistory.org

• The John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph-Macon College (partial serial archives)
• The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (partial serial archives)

• History of Augusta County, Virginia (1882), by J. Lewis Peyton (illustrated HTML at roanetnhistory.org)

• Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time (New Haven: The author, 1855), by William Grimes (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave: Written by Himself (New York: The author, 1825), by William Grimes (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• History of Mattaponi Baptist Church, King and Queen County, Virginia (Richmond, VA: Printed by Appeals Press, ca. 1928), by William Thomas Hundley (page images at HathiTrust)

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