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• 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)

• 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)

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

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• A Northman South : or, The race problem in America (J. Hill, 1890), by Joshua Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

• The National Urban League Southern Regional Office : a register of its records in the Library of Congress. (Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 1983), by Library of Congress Manuscript Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• The National Urban League Southern Regional Office : a register of its records in the Library of Congress. (Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 1983), by Library of Congress Manuscript Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work (Toronto et al.: J. Nichols and Co., c. 1901), by Booker T. Washington, contrib. by J. L. M. Curry, illust. by Frank Beard
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837), by Charles Ball (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (Pittsburgh: J. T. Shryock, 1853), by Charles Ball
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at HathiTrust
• Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography, by William Pickens (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The heir of slaves; an autobiography (The Pilgrim press, 1911), by William Pickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beacon lights of the race (E. H. Clarke & brother, 1911), by Green Polonius Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography, by William Pickens (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The heir of slaves; an autobiography (The Pilgrim press, 1911), by William Pickens (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)
• A Statement From Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia (ca. 1921), by Hugh Manson Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gilbert Academy and Agricultural College, Winsted, Louisiana sketches and incidents, selections from journal. (Hunt & Eaton, 1987), by W. D. Godman, Inez A. Godman, and A. H. Dexter Godman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Souvenir of educational and benevolent work among the Negroes of the South, 1865-1898 ([Boston?] : [W.H. Scott?], [1898?]], 1898), by William H. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Souvenir of educational and benevolent work among the Negroes of the South, 1865-1898 ([Boston?] : [W.H. Scott?], [1898?]], 1898), by William H. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jim Crow Car: or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race (Toronto: Hill Printing Co., 1898), by J. C. Coleman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Social Relations in Our Southern States (New York: Henry B. Price, 1860), by Daniel R. Hundley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South, by Anna J. Cooper (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • illlustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
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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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Minutes of consultation convention (Augusta, Ga. : Georgia Baptist Book and Job Print, 1888., 1888), by Union Brotherhood of Georgia (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 (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.)
  • HTML with commentary at UNC
  • 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)

• 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
• 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)

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