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• Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865 (Pinopolis, SC: St. John's Hunting Club, 1921), by Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, contrib. by Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Negro Plot: An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of the City of Charleston, South Carolina (Boston: Joseph W. Ingraham, 1822), by James Hamilton (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (New York: Dryden Press, c1953), by Charlotte L. Forten, ed. by Ray Allen Billington (page images at HathiTrust)

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• My Life in the South (third edition; Salem, OR: Salem Observer Book and Job Print, 1885), by Jacob Stroyer
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• 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)
• Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (Boston: The author, 1902), by Susie King Taylor
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• Sketches of My Life in the South, Part I (first published edition of his memoirs; Salem, OR: Salem Press, 1879), by Jacob Stroyer (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 3, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Before the War, and After the Union: An Autobiography (Boston: Gold Mind, c1929), by Sam Aleckson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911), by I. E. Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days (Columbia, S.C. : State Co., Printers, 1911., 1911), by I. E. Lowery (page images at HathiTrust)

• Appeal to the humane and philanthropic ([Saint Louis, Mo.] : [The Association], [1879], 1879), by Mo.) Colored Immigration Aid Association (Saint Louis, Randall K. Burkett, James Milton Turner, and Albert Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt, illust. by Clyde O. DeLand
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• The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), by Charles W. Chesnutt, illust. by Clyde O. DeLand
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• The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays (based on an 1899 edition, with some added essays), by Charles W. Chesnutt, ed. by Suzanne Shell (Gutenberg text)

• Under the Cottonwood: A Saga of Negro Life in Which the History, Traditions and Folklore of the Negro of the Last Century are Vividly Portrayed (New York: W. Malliet and Co., 1941), by Katheryn Campbell Graham (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A speech on "Equality before the law" (Printed at the Democrat Book and Job Printing House, 1866), by John Mercer Langston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (F. Bassermann, 1855), by Berthold Auerbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black codes, 1865-1867 (1912), by Byne Frances Goodman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The patriot dead : oration ([Norfolk, Va.] : "Cailloux" Post, No. 7, G.A.R., Dept. of Virginia, [1873?], 1873), by John Mercer Langston and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Intimidation and the Number of White and Colored Voters in Louisiana in 1876, As Shown by Statistical Data Derived From Republican Official Reports (New York: Picayune Office Job Print., 1877), by Stanford E. Chaillé (page images at HathiTrust)

• The legislation of 1865 concerning freedmen : a letter (Democratic-Conservative Executive Committee, 1875), by James Z. George, J.J. Halbert, and Democratic Party (Miss.). State Executive Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Republican Party in Tennessee reorganized : to the Republicans of Tennessee and the United States : memorial, resolutions, and proceedings had at a convention held at the capitol, Nashville, February 16th, 1870 : together with the speeches of A.J. Fletcher and J.O. Shackelford. (The Party, 1870), by Tenn.) Republican Party (Tenn.). State Convention (1870 : Nashville, A. J. Fletcher, and J. O. Shackelford (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Republican Party in Tennessee reorganized : to the Republicans of Tennessee and the United States : memorial, resolutions, and proceedings had at a convention held at the capitol, Nashville, February 16th, 1870 : together with the speeches of A.J. Fletcher and J.O. Shackelford. (The Party, 1870), by Tenn.) Republican Party (Tenn.). State Convention (1870 : Nashville, A. J. Fletcher, and J. O. Shackelford (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Republican Party in Tennessee reorganized : to the Republicans of Tennessee and the United States : memorial, resolutions, and proceedings had at a convention held at the capitol, Nashville, February 16th, 1870 : together with the speeches of A.J. Fletcher and J.O. Shackelford. (The Party, 1870), by Tenn.) Republican Party (Tenn.). State Convention (1870 : Nashville, A. J. Fletcher, and J. O. Shackelford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketch of the life of Mr. Lewis Charlton : and reminiscences of slavery (Daily Press Print, 1870), by Lewis Charlton and Edward Everett Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketch of the Life of Mr. Lewis Charlton, and Reminiscences of Slavery (Portland, ME: Daily Press Print, ca. 1870), by Lewis Charlton, ed. by Edward Everett Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The history of the New-York African free-schools : from their establishment in 1787, to the present time : embracing a period of more than forty years : also a brief account of the successful labors, of the New-York Manumission Society : with an appendix, containing specimens of original composition, both in prose and verse, by several of the pupils ; pieces spoken at public examinations ; an interesting dialogue between Doctor Samuel L. Mitchell, of New-York, and a little black boy of ten years old ; and lines illustrative of the Lancasterian system of instruction (New-York : Printed by Mahlon Day, no. 376, Pearl-Street, 1830., 1830), by Charles C. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (Chicago: Ida B. Wells, 1893), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, and F. I. Barnett (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (London: R. Bentlry and Son, 1883), by Frances Butler Leigh
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• Minutes of consultation convention (Augusta, Ga. : Georgia Baptist Book and Job Print, 1888., 1888), by Union Brotherhood of Georgia (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863, With the Hair Breadth Escapes of Men, Women and Children, and Destruction of Colored Men's Property, Not Less Than $15,000 (reprint; Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1945) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863, With the Hair Breadth Escapes of Men, Women and Children, and Destruction of Colored Men's Property, Not Less Than $15,000 (Detroit: The author, 1863) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Patrol Regulations for the County of Rowan: Printed by Order of the County Court, at August Term, Anno Domini 1825 (Salisbury, NC: P. White, 1825), by Rowan County (N.C.)
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Report (final report, 2006), by North Carolina 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission, contrib. by LeRae Umfleet (PDF files at ncacr.gov)
• A statement of facts concerning the bloody riot in Wilmington, N.C. of interest to every citizen of the United States (The author?, 1898), by J. Allen Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• An appeal to the king : the address delivered on Negro day in the Atlanta Exposition, October 21, 1895 ([Atlanta] : [publisher not identified], [1895?]], 1895), by J. W. E. Bowen, Randall K. Burkett, and Ga.) Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South, by Anna J. Cooper (Gutenberg ebook)

• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Republican Party in Tennessee reorganized : to the Republicans of Tennessee and the United States : memorial, resolutions, and proceedings had at a convention held at the capitol, Nashville, February 16th, 1870 : together with the speeches of A.J. Fletcher and J.O. Shackelford. (The Party, 1870), by Tenn.) Republican Party (Tenn.). State Convention (1870 : Nashville, A. J. Fletcher, and J. O. Shackelford (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1993), by Patricia Smith Prather and Jane Clements Monday, contrib. by Dan Rather (page images at Portal to Texas History)

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