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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)

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• Profile in Black and White: A Frank Portrait of South Carolina (Washington: Public Affairs Press, c1958), by Howard H. Quint (page images at HathiTrust)
• From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865, by Mary Ames (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Manuel Pereira: or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina, With Views of Southern Laws, Life, and Hospitality, by F. Colburn Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Struggles of 1876: How South Carolina Was Delivered From Carpet-Bag and Negro Rule (ca. 1909), by Benjamin R. Tillman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1874), by James Shepherd Pike
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  • page images at MOA
• Zuid-Carolina Onder Negerbestuur: Eene Bijdrage tot de Kennis van Amerika (in Dutch; Doesborgh: R. v. Hinloopen Labberton, 1875), by James Shepherd Pike, trans. by B. Scholten (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Life in the South (third edition; Salem, OR: Salem Observer Book and Job Print, 1885), by Jacob Stroyer
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• 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
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
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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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King, and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina (London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1847), by Peter Neilson
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Scarlet Sister Mary (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1928), by Julia Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Black April (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1927), by Julia Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of This City (third edition; Charleston, SC: Printed by A. E. Miller, 1822), by James Hamilton
  • Gutenberg text
  • 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 with commentary 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)

• Race and the Law in South Carolina: From Slavery to Jim Crow (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2023), by John Wertheimer (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)

• The People's Recorder (partial serial archives)
• The Southern Indicator (partial serial archives)

• The Negroes at Port Royal, by Edward Lillie Pierce (page images at MOA)

• Homes of the Freed (New York: New Republic, 1926), by Rossa B. Cooley, contrib. by J. H. Dillard, illust. by Julius J. Lankes (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911), by I. E. Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)

• PEA Journal (partial serial archives)

• My Life in the South (third edition; Salem, OR: Salem Observer Book and Job Print, 1885), by Jacob Stroyer
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• 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)

• 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
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust

• African American Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), ed. by Gayraud S. Wilmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Black Church and Marxism: What Do They Have to Say to Each Other (New York: Institute for Democatic Socialism, 1980), by James H. Cone, contrib. by Michael Harrington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, by Jupiter Hammon (page images at LOC)
• An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, by Jupiter Hammon, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• The History of the Negro Church (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1921), by Carter Godwin Woodson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The "Negro Pew": Being an Inquiry Concerning the Propriety of Distinctions in the House of God, on Account of Color (Boston: I. Knapp, 1837), by Harvey Newcomb (multiple formats at Google)
• Universal Negro Catechism: A Course of Instruction in Religious and Historical Knowledge Pertaining to the Race (New York: Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1921), by George Alexander McGuire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the Poor: Containing The Dairyman's Daughter (With Considerable Additions), The Negro Servant, and the Young Cottager (New Haven: Whiting and Tiffany, 1815), by Legh Richmond
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  • "Negro Servant" section; HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Gospel Among the Slaves: A Short Account of Missionary Operations Among the Slaves of the Southern States (Nashville: Pub. House of the M. E. Church, South, 1893), ed. by W. P. Harrison
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Negro Church: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, Held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903 (Atlanta University Publications #8; Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1903), ed. by W. E. B. Du Bois
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  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
• Pioneer Colored Christians (Clarksville, TN: W.P. Titus, 1911), by Harriet Parks Miller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Upward Path: The Evolution of a Race (revised edition of "From Darkness to Light"; New York: Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada, 1909), by Mary Helm
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• 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)
• Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D., by Isaac Lane (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Brand Plucked From the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch (Cleveland: Printed for the author by W. F. Schneider, 1879), by Julia A. J. Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Narrative of William Hayden, Containing a Faithful Account of His Travels for a Number of Years, Whilst a Slave, in the South (Cincinnati: W. Hayden, 1846), by William Hayden (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Shadow and Sunshine, by Eliza Suggs
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com
• A Slave Girl's Story: Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold (Brooklyn: The Author, 1898), by Kate Drumgoold (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Uncle Johnson, the Pilgrim of Six Score Years (tract #96; Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, ca. 1866), by G. L. Foster (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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)
• 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
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at Yale
  • multiple formats at Google
• Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray (Chicago: Free Methodist Publishing House, c1926), by Mrs. L. P. Ray and L. P. Ray (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Address of Abraham Johnstone, a Black Man, Who Was Hanged at Woodbury, in the County of Glocester, and State of New Jersey, on Saturday the 8th Day of July Last, To the People of Colour; To Which Is Added His Dying Confession or Declaration; Also, a Copy of a Letter to His Wife, Written the Day Previous to His Execution (Philadelphia: The Purchasers, 1797), by Abraham Johnstone (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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Catechism for the Use of the Methodist Missions, First Part (Charleston: Published by John Early, 1853), by William Capers (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Days of Bondage: Autobiography of Friday Jones, Being a Brief Narrative of His Trials and Tribulations in Slavery (Washington, D. C.: Commercial Pub. Co., 1883), by Friday Jones (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)
• Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; title page missing
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green (Maysville, KY: Republican Printing Office, 1888), by Elisha Winfield Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman (Philadelphia: Collins, 1863), by Elizabeth (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (first edition; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Sketches of Slave Life: or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (second edition, enlarged; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (page images at MOA)
• Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents (Bournemouth, UK: W. Mate and Sons, 1909), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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