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• Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc. (Norwich, CT: The Bulletin, 1881), by James L. Smith (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

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• God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (New York: The Viking Press, 1927), by James Weldon Johnson, illust. by Aaron Douglas and C. B. Falls
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• A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, a colored man and local preacher ... (Hartford, Conn. : [s.n.], 1860), by Greensbury Washington Offley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneers : a monograph on the first two black chaplains in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy / (Washington, D.C. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., [1981]), by H. L. Bergsma and United States. Navy. Chaplain Corps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Rev. Robert Anderson : born the 22d day of February, in the year of our Lord 1819, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1839. (Atlanta, Ga. : Foote & Davies, 1900), by Robert Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biography of Rev. David Smith, of the A.M.E. Church : being a complete history, embracing over sixty years' labor in the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom on earth., by David Smith, Levi Jenkins Coppin, Charles Simpson Butcher, Benj. T. Tanner, John Coleman, David Smith, and Daniel Alexander Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Louisiana Negro Baptists : from 1804 to 1914 /, by William Hicks, W. B. Purvis, and National Baptist Publishing Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopaedia of African Methodism /, by A. W. Wayman and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ministry : the field for the talented tenth /, by Kelly Miller, Kelly Miller, and D.C.) Murray Brothers Printing Company (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones /, by George F. Bragg and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Rev. Daniel A. Ridout, late member of the Baltimore Annual Conference, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church /, by D. Archie Ridout, Charles Simpson Butcher, and A. W. Wayman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Dr. J.E.C. Barham : and an original exposition of Bible baptism /, by J. E. C. Barham and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in the Christian pulpit, or, The two characters and two destinies, as delineated in twenty-one practical sermons /, by J. W. Hood, Charles Douglass Martin, Sylvester Lemuel Corrothers, Henry M. Snyder, Atticus G. Haygood, and Emory University Archives. GEU (page images at HathiTrust)
• Members of General Conference 1908 and other ministers and members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church /, by Horace Talbert, Charles Simpson Butcher, and Va.) African Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conference (23rd : 1908 : Norfolk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early : one of the pioneers of African Methodism in the West and South /, by Sarah J. W. Early and Charles Simpson Butcher, contrib. by A.M.E. Sunday School Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitution of the Preachers' Meeting of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Baltimore and vicinity., by Preachers' Meeting of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Baltimore and vicinity and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketch of Rev. J.W. Sanders and sundry articles., by Charles Simpson Butcher and James Woods Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• My recollections of African M.E. ministers, or, Forty years' experience in the African Methodist Episcopal Church /, by A. W. Wayman, Charles Simpson Butcher, Benj. T. Tanner, and A.M.E. Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sons of Allen /, by Horace Talbert, Charles Simpson Butcher, and W. S. Scarborough (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bond-slave of Christ : entering the ministry under great difficulties /, by George F. Bragg and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief miscellaneous narrative of the more early part of the life of L. Tilmon, pastor of a colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York /, by Levin Tilmon and Randall K. Burkett (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)
• Biographical sketch of the life and work of the late Rev. Augustus Shepard, D.D., Durham, North Carolina / (Raleigh : Edwards & Broughton Print. Co., 1912), by J. A. Whitted (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Louisiana Negro Baptists from 1804-1914 / (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Pub. Board, [1914 or 1915]), by William Hicks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unwritten history / (Philadelphia, Pa. : A.M.E. Book Concern, c1919), by Levi Jenkins Coppin (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the brush : or, Old-time social, political, and religious life in the Southwest / (New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1883), by Hamilton W. Pierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecclesiastical relation of Negroes : speech of Robert L. Dabney, in the synod of Virginia, Nov. 9, 1867, against the ecclesiastical equality of Negro preachers in our church, and their right to rule over white Christians. (Richmond, Printed at the office of the "Boys and girls' monthly", 1868), by Robert Lewis Dabney (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Jasper : the unmatched Negro philosopher and preacher / (New York ; Toronto : Fleming H. Revell, 1908), by William Eldridge Hatcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gilbert Academy and Agricultural College, Winsted, Louisiana [microform] : sketches and incidents, selections from journal. (New York : Hunt & Eaton, 1893, c1893, c1892), by W. D. Godman, Inez A. Godman, and A. H. Dexter Godman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our Baptist ministers and schools /, by A. W. Pegues, J. H. Jackson, and C. L. Purce (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the brush; or, Old-time social, political, and religious life in the Southwest. (New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1881), by Hamilton W. Pierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D. : ("The Black Spurgeon") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City / (New York : Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Silas Xavier Floyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• John Jasper, the unmatched Negro philosopher and preacher / (New York : F.H. Revell, c1908), by William E. Hatcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, giving an account of her call to preach the gospel, revised and corrected from the original manuscript written by herself. (Philadelphia : Published for the author, 1849), by Jarena Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley, a colored man, local preacher and missionary, : who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three at the North; who never went to school a day in his life, and only commenced to learn his letters when nineteen years and eight months old; the emancipation of his mother and her three children; how he learned to read while living in a slave state, and supported himself from the time he was nine years old until he was twenty-one. (Hartford, Conn. : [publisher not identified], 1859), by G. W. Offley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The education of Negro ministers : based upon a survey of theological schools for Negroes in the United States made by Robert Kelly and W.A. Daniel. (New York : Negro Universities Press, 1969), by W. A. Daniel and Robert Kelly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D. : ("The Black Spurgeon,") pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City /, by Silas Xavier Floyd, Carter Godwin Woodson, James V. Hatch, Camille Billops, Juanita Bethea, former owner. GEU 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)
• Out of the Briars: An Autobiography and Sketch of the Twenty-ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, by A. H. Newton, contrib. by J. P. Sampson (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Looking-Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman; Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa (New York: Wright, 1854), by Daniel H. Peterson (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (with a new introduction by Singleton; New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1960), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones and George A. Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Own Life Story (Washington, DC: Hamilton Printing, 1924), by Sterling N. Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Travels, and Gospel Labours of George White, an African: Written by Himself, and Revised by a Friend (New York: J. C. Totten, 1810), by George White (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Josiah, The Maimed Fugitive: A True Tale (London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1873), by Henry Bleby
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• Narrative of the Life of Thomas Cooper (New York: I. T. Hopper, 1832), by Isaac T. Hopper (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Against the Tide: An Autobiography (New York: R. R. Smith, 1938), by A. Clayton Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Africa for Christ: Twenty-Eight Years a Slave (London: Alexander and Shepheard, 1892), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Anderson Surpriser: Written After He Was Seventy-Five Years of Age (Macon, GA: The Author, 1895), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses, and Essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D. (Atlanta: Franklin Print. and Pub. Co., 1898), by Lucius Henry Holsey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., c1914), by Charles Alexander (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)
• A Brief Miscellaneous Narrative of the More Early Part of the Life of L. Tilmon, Pastor of a Colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York (Jersey City: W. W. & L. A. Pratt, Printers, Sentinel Buildings, 1853), by Levin Tilmon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early, One of the Pioneers of African Methodism in the West and South (Nashville: Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1894), by Sarah J. W. Early (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
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• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lee and Yeocum, c1887), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
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• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Compiled and Written by Himself (Portsea, UK: The author, ca. 1811), by John Jea (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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)
• Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel (Philadelphia: The author, 1849), by Jarena Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography and Work of Bishop M. F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe"), Editor, Publisher, and Church Extension Secretary: A Narration of His Whole Career From the Cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America (Nashville, TN: Pub. for the author by the Publishing House of the M. E. Church, 1912), by M. F. Jamison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson ("Uncle Tom"), From 1789 to 1881 (revised and enlarged edition; London, ON: Schuyler, Smith, and Co., 1881), by Josiah Henson, ed. by John Lobb, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, S. Morley, Wendell Phillips, and John Greenleaf Whittier (illustrated 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)
• 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)
• 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 of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (Boston: A. D. Phelps, 1849), by Josiah Henson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church, With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847; Also, A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou (Pittsburgh: Ohio A. M. E. Conference, 1850), by A. R. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Looking-Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman; Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa (New York: Wright, 1854), by Daniel H. Peterson (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• My Life and Work, by Alexander Walters (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1858), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876 (London: Christian Age Office, 1876), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, and S. Morley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Wilkerson's History of His Travels and Labors, in the United States, As a Missionary, In Particular, That of the Union Seminary, Located in Franklin Co., Ohio, Since He Purchased His Liberty in New Orleans, La. &c. (1861), by Major James Wilkerson
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• John Jasper: The unmatched Negro philosopher and preacher, by William E. Hatcher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee: Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel, by Jarena Lee, illust. by Alfred M. Hoffy (Gutenberg ebook)
• 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)

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