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• A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for The Kitchen, by Malinda Russell, An Experienced Cook, Paw Paw, Michigan, 1866: A Facsimile of the First Known Cookbook by an African American (Ann Arbor: W. L. Clements Library, c2007), by Malinda Russell, ed. by Janice Bluestein Longone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States, (New York, Duffield & company, 1921), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black writers in New England : a bibliography, with biographical notes, of books by and about Afro-American writers associated with New England in the collection of Afro-American literature, Suffolk University, Museum of Afro-American History, Boston African American National Historic Site / (Boston : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, c1985), by Edward Clark and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• John F.W. Ware and his work for the freedmen : an address in the African Methodist Church, Charles Street, Boston, April 11, 1881 / (Boston : Press of Geo. H. Ellis ..., 1881), by William E. Matthews and John Davis Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to sources : black American writers / (Springfield, Ill. : Sangamon State University Library, 1973), by Kathryn Harris and Sangamon State University. Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Album littéraire : journal des jeunes gens, amateurs de littérature. (Nouvelle-Orléans [La.] : J.L. Sollée), by J. L. Marciacq, contrib. by J. L. Sollée (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States, (New York, Duffield & Company, 1918), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poor Barny: : to which is added, a sermon respecting universal salvation, / (Philadelphia : Published by "the Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia," and sold at their deporsitory, no. 8, South Front-street. Wm. Bradford, agent, March, 1820), by Lemuel Haynes, contrib. by Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• A two years' absence, or, A farewell sermon : preached in the Fifth Congregational Church /, by James W. C. Pennington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some books and pamphlets, music, (Louisville, Ky., 1921), by Louisville Free Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Banneker's Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina almanack and ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1796; being bissextile, or leap-year; the twentieth year of American independence, and eighth year of the federal government. (Baltimore : Printed for Philip Edwards, James Keddie, and Thomas, Andrews and Butler; and sold at their respective stores, wholesale and retail, [1795]), by Benjamin Banneker, Samuel Butler, Ebenezer Turrell Andrews, Isaiah Thomas, James Keddie, and Philip Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States, (New York, Duffield & company, 1918), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery; : with a preface, by the Rev. T. Price, D.D. (London : Harvey and Darton, 55, Gracechurch Street. To be had also of G. Wightman, 24, Paternoster Row; William Ball, Aldine Chambers, Paternoster Row; and at the Anti-Slavery Office, 18, Aldermanbury, MDCCCXXXIX. [1839]), by Moses Roper, John Cochran, Thomas Price, and printer Johnston & Barrett, contrib. by England) Harvey & Darton (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Liberty bell. /, by William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, printer Andrews & Prentiss, and National Anti-slavery Bazaar, ed. by Maria Weston Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fire!! : a quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists / (Metuchen, NJ : The Fire!! Press, 1982), by Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Walker's appeal, in four articles, : together with a preamble, to the colored citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly to those of the United States of America. Written in Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, Sept. 28th, 1829. (Boston : Published by David Walker, 1830), by David Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. / (Albany : Re-printed from the London edition, by Barber & Southwick, for Thomas Spencer, book-seller, Market-Street, 1793), by Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Spencer, Solomon Southwick, John Barber, Selina Hastings Huntingdon, John Wheatley, and printer Barber & Southwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States, (New York, Duffield & company, 1929), by Benjamin Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sermon preached on the 24th day of June 1789, : being the festival of St. John the Baptist, at the request of the Right Worshipful the Grand Master Prince Hall, and the rest of the brethren of the African Lodge of the Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons in Boston. / (Boston : Printed and sold [by Thomas and John Fleet] at the Bible and Heart, [1789]), by John Marrant, John Fleet, Thomas Fleet, and Mass.) Freemasons. African Lodge No. 459 (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of William J. Brown, of Providence, R.I.: : with personal recollections of incidents in Rhode Island. (Providence : Angell & Co., printers, 1883), by William J. Brown and printer Angell & Co. (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voice from the South. /, by Anna J. Cooper, contrib. by Aldine Printing House (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (author died in 1960; c1942), by Zora Neale Hurston (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Pagan Spain (c1957), by Richard Wright (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (first edition, 1945), by Richard Wright, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• A Long Way From Home (New York: Lee Furman Inc., c1937), by Claude McKay (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Upward Path: A Reader for Colored Children (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, c1920), ed. by Myron T. Pritchard and Mary White Ovington, contrib. by Robert Russa Moton
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• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

• Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Felice Blake (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977-1993 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Michael D. Hill (PDF at Ohio State)
• Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), ed. by Dana A. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Chiji Akoma (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Negro in American Fiction (originally published 1937; reprinted Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968), by Sterling A. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (PDF at Ohio State)

• The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Decade of Negro Self-Expression (Trustees of the John Slater Fund occasional paper #26; 1928), by Alain Locke, contrib. by Howard Washington Odum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by April C. E. Langley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
• Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Yoshinobu Hakutani (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Felice Blake (PDF at Ohio State)
• Black American Literature: Notes on the Problem of Definition (Ball State Monograph #22; Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1971), by Joseph F. Trimmer (PDF at bsu.edu)
• Hemingway and the Black Renaissance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), ed. by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Decade of Negro Self-Expression (Trustees of the John Slater Fund occasional paper #26; 1928), by Alain Locke, contrib. by Howard Washington Odum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (revised edition; New York: Duffield and Co., 1921), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (New York: Duffield and Co., 1918), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition; Philadelphia: G. S. Ferguson Co., 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (mutiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States, by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (Gutenberg ebook)

• Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, and Camille T. Dungy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of American Negro Poetry, Chosen and Edited With an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), ed. by James Weldon Johnson
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• Bronze: A Book Of Verse (Boston: B. J. Brimmer, 1922), by Georgia Douglas Johnson, contrib. by W. E. B. Du Bois (mulitiple formats at archive.org)
• Songs from the wayside, by Clara Ann Thompson. (Rossmoyne, Ohio, 1908), by Clara Ann Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems, by Elliott Blaine Henderson, contrib. by E. G. Burkham (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Valued Ruby: Poems, by Perry Honce McGee (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rosemary and Pansies, by Effie Waller Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• Negro Poets and Their Poems, by Robert Thomas Kerlin (Gutenberg ebook)
• For Your Sweet Sake: Poems, by James E. McGirt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise and Otherwise: With a Study, by Thomas Washington Talley (Gutenberg ebook)

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