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• Folklore -- Juvenile fiction

• Daddy Jake the runaway (New York: Century Co., 1889), by Joel Chandler Harris and William Abbott Pluemer, illust. by E. W. Kemble (page images at Florida)
• Daddy Jake, the runaway (London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1890), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by E. W. Kemble (page images at Florida)

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• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voodoo Tales, As Told Among the Negroes of the Southwest (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), by Mary Alicia Owen, contrib. by Charles Godfrey Leland, illust. by Juliette A. Owen and Louis Wain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress (10 plays written between 1925 and 1944), by Zora Neale Hurston (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation, by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by J. M. Condé, A. B. Frost, and Frank Ver Beck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South, by Sarah Johnson Cocke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 4, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 2, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 1, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes (1940), by Savannah Unit Georgia Writers' Project, ed. by Mary Granger (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• DuBose Heyward's Use of Folklore in His Negro Fiction (Citadal Monograph Series #2; Charleston, SC: The Citadel, 1961), by Frank Durham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African American-Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society #54; Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c1996), ed. by Francis Edward Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen, and Alan B. Govenar (page images at unt.edu)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Princess of the Moon: A Confederate Fairy Story (Warrenton, VA: Printed at the Sun Book and Job Office, 1869), by Cora Semmes Ives
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• When Are We Happiest? or, The Little Camerons (sixth edition; Boston: W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1848), by Louisa C. Tuthill
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  • page images at HathiTrust
• Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., c1908), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Ring Robinson, illust. by W. M. Rhoads (page images at LOC)
• Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett, c1853), contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks Edition (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Company, n.d.), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Nappy has a new friend, by Inez Hogan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hazel, by Mary White Ovington, illust. by Harry Roseland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told after Dark, by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by E. W. Kemble (Gutenberg ebook)
• Silas X. Floyd's Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young: Entertaining, Uplifting, Interesting, by Silas Xavier Floyd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Polly Page Ranch Club, by Izola L. Forrester, illust. by Faith Avery (Gutenberg ebook)
• Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation, by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by J. M. Condé, A. B. Frost, and Frank Ver Beck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Watermelon Pete and Others, by Elizabeth Gordon, illust. by Clara Powers Wilson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aaron in the Wildwoods, by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by Oliver Herford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nelly's First Schooldays, by Josephine Franklin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mou-Setsé: A Negro Hero; The Orphans' Pilgimage: A Story of Trust in God, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wreck of the Red Bird: A Story of the Carolina Coast, by George Cary Eggleston (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Little Dusky Hero, by Harriet T. Comstock (Gutenberg ebook)
• Daisy, by Susan Warner (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Little Union Scout, by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by George Gibbs (Gutenberg ebook)
• Culm Rock: The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught, by Glance Gaylord (Gutenberg ebook)
• Diddie, Dumps & Tot; or, Plantation child-life, by Louise Clarke Pyrnelle, illust. by William Ludwell Sheppard (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Knights of the White Shield: Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play, by Edward A. Rand (Gutenberg ebook)
• Real Folks, by A. D. T. Whitney (Gutenberg ebook)
• Daisy (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1868), by Susan Warner, James Nisbet & Co, and James Ballantyne and Co (page images at Florida)
• Culm Rock (Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1867), by Glance Gaylord, Henry Hoyt, William J Pierce, W. L Champney, and Matthews & Robinson (page images at Florida)
• The Babes in the basket, or, Daph and her charge (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1875), by Sarah S Baker (page images at Florida)
• The Babes in the basket, or, Daph and her charge (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1875), by Sarah S Baker, illust. by Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• Simple addition by a little nigger (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1876), by John (page images at Florida)
• Kmanyo (Philadelphia, New York: American Sunday School Union, 1850), ed. by American Sunday-School Union Committee of Publication (page images at Florida)
• Strangers from the South and other stories (Boston (Franklin St. Corner of Hawley): D. Lothrop and Company, 1877), by Ella Farman and Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick, illust. by Samuel Smith Kilburn (page images at Florida)
• The babes in the basket, or, Daph and her charge (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1880), by Sarah S Baker (page images at Florida)
• My new toy book (London: Religious Tract Society, c1881) (page images at Florida)
• Uncle Tom's cabin (London: Trischler & Company, 1891), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ed. by Julia S. E Rae, illust. by Florence Maplestone (page images at Florida)
• The coral ship (New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), by Kirk Munroe, G.P. Putnam's Sons, and Knickerbocker Press (page images at Florida)
• Tom Sawyer abroad (London: Chatto & Windus, 1894), by Mark Twain and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress), illust. by Daniel Carter Beard (page images at Florida)
• Ole mammy's torment (Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1897), by Annie F. Johnston and C.H. Simonds & Co, illust. by Mary G. Johnston and Amy M. Sacker (page images at Florida)
• The story of Aaron (so named) (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Joel Chandler Harris and H.O. Houghton & Company, illust. by Oliver Herford (page images at Florida)
• Sweetheart (New York: American Tract Society, c1896), by Ernest Gilmore (page images at Florida)
• Max and Zan and Nicodemus, or, A silver teaspoon and a linen napkin (Dayton Ohio: W.J. Shuey, 1896), by Melissa Anne Haynie Fisher (page images at Florida)
• Uncle Dick's legacy (London: T. Woolmer, 1888), by Emily Huntington Miller (page images at Florida)
• Recollections of Auton house (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889), by Augustus Hoppin, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and H.O. Houghton & Company (page images at Florida)
• Daddy Jake the runaway (New York: Century Co., 1889), by Joel Chandler Harris and William Abbott Pluemer, illust. by E. W. Kemble (page images at Florida)
• Daddy Jake, the runaway (London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1890), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by E. W. Kemble (page images at Florida)
• The battle of New York (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892), by William Osborn Stoddard (page images at Florida)
• Dear little Marchioness (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, n.d.), by A Tracy, Thomas Frank Gailor, and C.J. Peters & Son (Typographer ), illust. by W. L Taylor (page images at Florida)
• The chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann (London: J.M. Dent & Co., n.d.), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by A. B. Frost (page images at Florida)
• The stolen children (London: T. Woolmer, n.d.), by Henry Bleby (page images at Florida)
• A boy's battle (Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1898), by Will Allen Dromgoole and C.H. Simonds & Co (page images at Florida)
• Aaron in the wildwoods (London and New York: Harper, 1898), by Joel Chandler Harris and Oliver Herford (page images at Florida)
• Tales of the home folks in peace and war (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898), by Joel Chandler Harris and H.O. Houghton & Company (page images at Florida)
• Citizen bird (New York: Macmillan Company, n.d.), by Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues, illust. by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (page images at Florida)
• Four-footed Americans and their kin (New York: Macmillan Co., 1898), by Mabel Osgood Wright, ed. by Frank M Chapman, illust. by Ernest Thompson Seton (page images at Florida)

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