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• The 1619 Project (special issue of The New York Times Magazine, with supplementary materials; 2019), ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones (PDF with commentary at pulitzercenter.org)

• 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

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

• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (London: W. M. Watts, 1855), by John Brown, ed. by Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Men of Maryland (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1914), by George F. Bragg
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa, by Thomas Bluett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Men of Maryland (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1914), by George F. Bragg
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Narrative of Events in the Life of William Green (Formerly a Slave): Written by Himself (Springfield, MA: L. M. Guernsey, 1853), by William Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, A Colored Man, Local Preacher and Missionary (1859), by G. W. Offley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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)
• From Slavery To a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church Canada, by S. J. Celestine Edwards (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Thomas Cooper (New York: I. T. Hopper, 1832), by Isaac T. Hopper (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)
• Frederick Douglass (London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1906), by Booker T. Washington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator (revised edition; New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1895), by Frederic May Holland (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass, the Orator: Containing an Account of His Life, His Eminent Public Services, His Brilliant Career as Orator, Selections from His Speeches and Writings (Springfield, MA: Willey and Co., 1893), by James M. Gregory, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave: Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape, Written by Himself (Worcester, MA: John Thompson, 1856), by John Thompson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text

• 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)

• All White America (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1937), by Thomas Theodore McKinney (page images at HathiTrust)

• These Rights They Seek: A Comparison of Goals and Techniques of Local Civil Rights Organizations (Washington: Public Affairs Press, c1962), by Jacquelyne Johnson Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goals and Techniques in Three Negro Civil-Rights Organizations in Alabama (dissertation; Columbus: Ohio State University, 1960), by Jacquelyne Johnson Clarke (PDF at OhioLink)
• Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt, by William James Edwards (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Racial Possibilities As Indicated by the Negroes of Arkansas (Little Rock: Philander Smith College, 1898), by D. B. Gaines
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California, by California Department of Parks and Recreation (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• 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)
• A Statement From Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia (ca. 1921), by Hugh Manson Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The "Negro in Georgia": Another "Pamphlet" Called Forth by Governor Hugh M. Dorsey's Slanderous Document, Scattered Broadcast Over the Country, and In Which He Purported to Set Forth the Brutal Treatment Accorded the Negro by White Citizens of Georgia, the "American Belgian Congo" (ca. 1921), by Caleb A. Ridley and Dixie Defense Committee (Georgia Division) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lynch Law in Georgia (Chicago: Chicago Colored Citizens, 1899), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Louis P. Le Vin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at NIU
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of Negro Servitude in Illinois, and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864 (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co., 1904), by Norman Dwight Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Clasping Hands With Generations Past (Cincinnati, OH: Privately printed by Wiesen-Hart Press, 1932), by Emma Rouse Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Witness: Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Carroll County, Maryland (2004), ed. by Jesse Glass (PDF at archive-it.org)
• Notes on the Progress of the Colored People of Maryland Since the War (1890), by Jeffrey R. Brackett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State: An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts (Anti-Slavery Tracts new series #13; New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.), by Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and Charles C. Burleigh (PDF and XML at loc.gov)

• M is for Mississippi and Murder (1955), by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at Preservica)
• Racial Facts (1964), by Citizens' Councils of America (page images at Preservica)

• The Negroes of Nebraska, by Writers' Program (Neb.) (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Eagle Clippings (Brooklyn, NY: D.B. Fulton, ca. 1907), by Jack Thorne
  • illustrated HTML at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • 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)

• Unequal Access: The Desegregation of Public Libraries in Northern Virginia (Fairfax, VA: Fairfax County Public Library, 2021), by Chris Barbuschak and Suzanne S. LaPierre (PDF at fairfaxcounty.gov)
• Mongrel Virginians: The Win Tribe (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1926), by Arthur H. Estabrook and Ivan E. McDougle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Negro Families in Rural Wisconsin: A Study of Their Community Life (1959), by Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Human Rights (Javascript-dependent page images at wisconsinhistory.org)

• Racism in America and How to Combat It (1970), by United States Commission on Civil Rights, contrib. by Anthony Downs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Racial Desegregation in Public Education in the United States: Theme Study (2000), by Susan Salvatore (PDF at National Park Service)

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