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• Pastor Henry N. Jeter's Twenty-Five Years Experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church and Her History (Providence, RI: Remington Printing Co, 1901), by Henry N. Jeter (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Pastor Henry N. Jeter's Twenty-Five Years Experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church and Her History (Providence, RI: Remington Printing Co, 1901), by Henry N. Jeter (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Pastor Henry N. Jeter's Twenty-Five Years Experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church and Her History (Providence, RI: Remington Printing Co, 1901), by Henry N. Jeter (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• Negro Baptist History, U.S.A.: 1750, 1930 (Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board, N. B. C., ca. 1930), by Lewis Garnett Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• An outline of Baptist history : a splendid reference work for busy workers : a record of the struggles and triumps [sic] of Baptist pioneers and builders (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Pub. Board, 1911., 1911), by N. H. Pius, Kenny Jackson Williams, and National Baptist Publishing Board (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D. ("The Black Spurgeon"), Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City (Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1902), by Silas Xavier Floyd, contrib. by Robert Stuart MacArthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery, Written by Himself (New Bedford, MA: Press of B. Lindsey, 1847), by Leonard Black (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of Dr. Walker (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Silas Xavier Floyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Echoes from a pioneer life (A. B. Caldwell, 1922), by Jared Maurice Arter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Baptist ministers and schools (Springfield, Mass. : Willey & Co., 1892., 1892), by A. W. Pegues, J. H. Jackson, and C. L. Purce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D. : ("The Black Spurgeon,") pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Publishing Board, 1902., 1902), by Silas Xavier Floyd, Carter Godwin Woodson, James V. Hatch, Camille Billops, Juanita Bethea, Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, National Baptist Publishing Board, and N.Y.) Mount Olivet Baptist Church (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life, labors, and travels of elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist denomination (Watertown [N.Y.] : Ingalls & Stowell's Steam Press, 1852., 1852), by John W. Lewis, Randall K. Burkett, and Arthur Dearing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who among the colored Baptists of the United States : volume I (Kansas City, Mo. : Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1913., 1913), by Samuel William Bacote (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monitor of Richland Creek Baptist Association : with biographical sketches of the founders and leaders of that organization (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Pub. Board, 1907., 1907), by John Smith Gilmore and Richland Creek Baptist Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D.: ("The Black Spurgeon") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City, by Silas Xavier Floyd, contrib. by Robert Stuart MacArthur (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• Bond and Free: or, Yearnings for Freedom, From My Green Brier House: Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom (Philadelphia: The Author, 1861), by Israel Campbell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination (with an essay on "the African race" by the author, and on the fugitive slave law by Arthur Dearing; Watertown, MA: Ingalls and Stowell's Steam Press, 1852), by John W. Lewis, contrib. by Arthur Dearing (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)
• Narrative of a colored man (J. F. Weishampel, Jr., 1859), by Noah Davis (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Walker Baptist Association of Georgia (Augusta, Ga. : Chronicle Job Print, 1909., 1909), by R. J. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green (Maysville, KY: Republican Printing Office, 1888), by Elisha Winfield Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Biography of London Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colored Persons, Lexington, KY (Lexington, KY: A. W. Elder, 1854) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• History of Louisiana Negro Baptists from 1804-1914 (National Baptist Pub. Board, 1914), by William Hicks (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Louisiana Negro Baptists : from 1804 to 1914 (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Pub. Board, [1914?], 1914), by William Hicks, W. B. Purvis, and National Baptist Publishing Board (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit: The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph; The Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life (Boston: J. H. Earle, 1893), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life of Charles B.W. Gordon, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Petersburg, Virginia : and history of the church (John B. Ege, steam printer and book binder, 1885), by William Henry Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• William J. Brown (Angell & Co., printers, 1883), by William J. Brown and Angell & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Brief Sketch of the Life and Labors of Rev. Alexander Bettis; Also an Account of the Founding and Development of the Bettis Academy (Trenton, SC: The author, 1913), by Alfred W. Nicholson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Lo these many years; an autobiographical sketch (State Co., 1941), by John Jacob Starks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Interesting Account of Thomas Anderson, a Slave, Taken from His Own Lips (Virginia: 1854?), by Thomas Anderson, ed. by J. P. Clark (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of Charles B.W. Gordon, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Petersburg, Virginia : and history of the church (John B. Ege, steam printer and book binder, 1885), by William Henry Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• John Jasper : the unmatched Negro philosopher and preacher (Fleming H. Revell, 1908), by William Eldridge Hatcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Out of the Depths: or, The Trumph of the Cross (1927), by Nellie Arnold Plummer (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Walker Baptist Association of Georgia (Augusta, Ga. : Chronicle Job Print, 1909., 1909), by R. J. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the First African Baptist Church, From its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888 (Savannah, Ga.: The Morning News Print, 1888.), by E. K. Love (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The history of the Olivet Baptist Church of Chicago (Dept. of Photoduplication, the University of Chicago Library, 1922), by Miles Mark Fisher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• History of Louisiana Negro Baptists from 1804-1914 (National Baptist Pub. Board, 1914), by William Hicks (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Louisiana Negro Baptists : from 1804 to 1914 (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Pub. Board, [1914?], 1914), by William Hicks, W. B. Purvis, and National Baptist Publishing Board (page images at HathiTrust)

• 1922-1962 souvenir book for Church Anniversary. (s.n., 1962), by Mich.) True Light Baptist Church (Grand Rapids (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination (with an essay on "the African race" by the author, and on the fugitive slave law by Arthur Dearing; Watertown, MA: Ingalls and Stowell's Steam Press, 1852), by John W. Lewis, contrib. by Arthur Dearing (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination (with an essay on "the African race" by the author, and on the fugitive slave law by Arthur Dearing; Watertown, MA: Ingalls and Stowell's Steam Press, 1852), by John W. Lewis, contrib. by Arthur Dearing (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Annual report for 1886 (Second Baptist Church, 1887), by N.C.). Sunday School Second Baptist Church (Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Official history of the First African Baptist Church : Philadelphia, Pa. (CH Brooks, 1922), by Charles H. Brooks and Pa.) First African Baptist Church (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)

• "In Christ's stead", autobiographical sketches. (Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, 1902), by Joanna P. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• These Plantations (Providence, RI: E. A. Johnson Co., c1937), by J. Earl Clauson, contrib. by Sevellon Brown, illust. by Milton R. Halladay and Paule S. Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (5 volumes; New York: American Historical Society, 1920), by Thomas Williams Bicknell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Biographical volume (beginning with Lister): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Biographical volume (beginning with Brown): multiple formats at archive.org
• The House of Carr: A Historical Sketch of the Carr Family From 1450 to 1926, by Walter Leon Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oration on the annals of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Printed for the association, by C.A. Alvord, 1863), by Sons of Rhode Island, George William Curtis, and Francis Vinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers from the Historical Seminary of Brown University. (Providence, R.I., 1894), by Brown University. Historical Seminary and J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island educational circulars. Historical series. ([Providence], 1908), by Rhode Island. Office of Commissioner of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island and the formation of the Union. (Published for Columbia University by the Macmillan Co., 1898), by Frank Greene Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island; the development of a democracy. (Rhode Island State Board of Education, 1957), by Paul F. Gleeson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island, a study in separatism (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1905), by Irving Berdine Richman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island boundaries, 1636-1936 (Rhode Island Tercentenary Commission, 1936), by Rhode Island State Planning Board, John Hutchins Cady, and Rhode Island. Tercentenary commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Providence Plantations for two hundred and fifty years. An historical review of the foundation, rise and progress of the city of Providence ... also, sketches of the cities of Newport and Pawtucket, and the other towns of the state for which Providence is the commercial centre, together with an account of the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Providence, including the oration by Chief-Justice Thomas Durfee, list of organizations and societies participating, and other matters connected therewith, being an historical souvenir of this occasion ... (J. A. & R. A. Reid, 1886), by Welcome Arnold Greene and Thomas Durfee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providence County court house. (E. L. Freeman & co., printers to the slate, 1885), by Rhode Island. Commissioners to Decorate the Providence County Court House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Picturesque Rhode Island. (J. A. & R. A. Reid, 1881), by Wilfred Harold Munro, Ellen R. Luther, and Robert Grieve (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the churches in Rhode-Island : presented at an adjourned session of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Rhode-Island Baptist State Convention, Providence, November 8, 1853 (G.H. Whitney, 1854), by Henry Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island's historic background ([Remington press], 1933), by Howard W. Preston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island's part in making America. An address delivered at Rhode Island college of education (State of Rhode Island public education service, 1923), by James Truslow Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse, delivered before the Rhode-Island Historical Society ... January 13, 1847. Published at the request of the Society. (C. Burnett, jr., 1847), by Job Durfee, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Old Stone Bank" history of Rhode Island, : presented by Providence Institution for Savings ... (Providence Institution for Savings, 1929), by John Williams Haley and R.I.) Providence Institution for Savings (Providence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island's historic background ([Remington press], 1930), by Howard W. Preston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island in the War with Spain. (E.L. Freeman & sons, printers to the state, 1900), by 1899-1900 Rhode Island. Governor and Frances E. Kinnicutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of Rhode Island (J. A. & R. A. Reid, 1877), by George Washington Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures of Rhode Island in the past, 1642-1833 (Preston & Rounds Co., 1900), by Gertrude Selwyn Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Washington and Rhode Island (Printed by Haley & Sykes Company], 1932), by John Williams Haley and Rhode Island. Dept. of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (The American Historical Society, 1920), by Thomas Williams Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liber brunensis / 1898 (Providence Press Co., 1869), by Brown University and Brown Paper (1857-1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island and Providence plantations : a short historical sketch and statistical compilation ([s.n.], 1885), by Prescott O. Clarke and William Carver Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island and the formation of the Union. (New York, 1898), by Frank Greene Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island Old home week. (Issued by the Publicity Dept., Old Home Week Committee, 1907), by R.I.). Publicity Department Old Home Week Committee (Providence and R.I.) Rhode Island Old Home Week (1907 : Providence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Committee on marking historical sites in Rhode Island (E.L. Freeman company printers, 1914), by Rhode Island Historical Society. Committee on marking historical sites in Rhode Island and Rhode Island. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical series ([Providence], 1908), by Rhode Island. Dept. of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations (D. Appleton & Co., 1874), by Samuel Greene Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the end of the century : a history (Mason Pub. Co., 1902), by Edward Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse, embracing the civil and religious history of Rhode-Island; delivered April 4, A.D. 1838, at the close of the second century from the first settlement of the island. (H. H. Brown, 1838), by Arthur A. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered before the Rhode Island Historical Society ... February nineteenth, 1851. (G. H. Whitney, 1851), by Elisha R. Potter and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations. (D. Appleton & co., 1859), by Samuel Greene Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of Rhode Island (J. A. & R. A. Reid, 1877), by George Washington Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oration on the annals of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. (Printed for the association, by C. A. Alvord, 1863), by Sons of Rhode Island, George William Curtis, and Francis Vinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providence County court house. (E. L. Freeman & co., printers to the slate, 1885), by Rhode Island. Commissioners to decorate the Providence County court house (page images at HathiTrust)
• Once upon a time in Rhode Island (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914), by Katharine Pyle and National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Rhode Island (page images at HathiTrust)
• A retrospect from the round tower of the Pomham Club (The Club, 1889), by Sidney S. Rider and R.I.) Pomham Club (Providence (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the churches in Rhode-Island. (G. H. Whitney, 1854), by Henry Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Committee on marking historical sites in Rhode Island (E. L. Freeman company, printers, 1914), by Rhode Island historical society. Committee on marking historical sites in Rhode Island and Rhode Island (page images at HathiTrust)
• A retrospect from the round tower of the Pomham club (Priv. print. club copy, 1889), by Sidney S. Rider and R.I.) Pomham Club (Providence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island Historical Society addresses (C. Burnett, jr., 1847), by Job Durfee and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island Independence Day addresses : one hundred & fiftieth anniversary of governorship of Hon. Samuel Ward, 1762 ... : two hundred & fiftieth anniversary of the presidency of Hon. Benedict Arnold, 1662 ... : the seventieth anniversary of the Dorr War and erection of monument and tablet ... (The Association, 1912), by Thomas Williams Bicknell and Rhode Island Citizens' Historical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Greene and vicinity, 1845-1929 ([n.p.], 1936), by Squire G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our state: Rhode Island (Printed at the Oxford press, 1925), by Lilian Burleigh Miner (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations. (D. Appleton, 1859), by Samuel Greene Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse, delivered before the Rhode-Island Historical Society ... January 13, 1847. (C. Burnett, jr., 1847), by Job Durfee and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special message of His Excellancy James Y. Smith, governor of Rhode Island, to the General assembly, January, 1866. (Providence press co., printers to the state, 1866), by 1863-1866 Rhode Island. Governor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Newport. (Hammett, 1884), by George C. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island in Chicago; proceedings of the annual banquet and reunion ... April 10th, 1890. (Providence, 1890), by Sons and Daughters of Rhode Island in the Northwest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers from the Historical Seminary of Brown University (Providence, R.I., 1894), by Brown University. Historical Seminary and J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island; its making and its meaning; a survey of the annals of the commonwealth from its settlement to the death of Roger Williams, 1636-1683 (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1908), by Irving Berdine Richman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse, delivered before the Rhode-Island historical society, on the evening of Wednesday, January 13, 1847 : by Hon. Job Durfee, Pub. at the request of the society. (C. Burnett, jr., 1847), by Job Durfee, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations (Preston & Rounds, 1899), by Samuel Greene Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical publication. (Providence, 1928), by Rhode Island. State Bureau of Information (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rhode Island, a study in separatism (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1905), by Irving Berdine Richman (page images at HathiTrust)
• New England's gift to the nation -- the township : an oration (Angell, Burlingame & Co., printers, 1875), by Arnold Green and Henry Clay Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (American Historical Society, 1920), by Thomas Williams Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of Rhode Island, by George Washington Greene (Gutenberg ebook)

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