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• African Americans -- Virginia -- History
• History -- 17th century

• 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)

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• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, by Michael Plunkett (HTML at Virginia)

• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, by Michael Plunkett (HTML at Virginia)

• Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith, by Philip Barrett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington (the Father of Our Country), Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds (prepared for a P. T. Barnum exhibition; 1835) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Missionary Pioneer, or A Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart, (Man of Colour,) Founder, under God of the Mission Among the Wyandotts at Upper Sandusky, Ohio (New York: Printed by J. C. Totten, 1827), by Joseph Mitchell
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889), by Bethany Veney, contrib. by Willard F. Mallalieu, V. A. Cooper, and Erastus Spaulding
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (second edition, 1890), by Bethany Veney, contrib. by Willard F. Mallalieu, V. A. Cooper, and Erastus Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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)
• Horrors of the Virginian Slave Trade and of the Slave-Rearing Plantations: The True Story of Dinah, an Escaped Virginian Slave, Now in London, on Whose Body Are Eleven Scars Left by Tortures Which Were Inflicted by Her Master, Her Own Father; Together with Extracts from the Laws of Virginia, Showing That Against These Barbarities the Law Gives Not the Smallest Protection to the Slave, But the Reverse (London: A. W. Bennett, 1863), by John Hawkins Simpson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• A Short History of the Life of Christopher McPherson, Alias Pherson, Son of Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords: Containing a Collection of Certificates, Letters, &c. Written by Himself (second edition; Lynchburg, VA: C. M. Smith, 1855), by Christopher McPherson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (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)
• Autobiography of Henry Parker (published sometime in the 1860s), by Henry Parker (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc. (Norwich, CT: The Bulletin, 1881), by James L. Smith (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• History of the Life of Rev. Wm. Mack Lee, Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee (c1918), by William Mack Lee
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
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• A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man, by Noah Davis (illustrated 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)
• Narrative of a colored man (J. F. Weishampel, Jr., 1859), by Noah Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of African Methodism in Virginia, or, Four decades in the Old Dominion (Hampton Institute Press, 1908), by Israel L. Butt and Benjamin F. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• School life and other incidents in the life of Silas Nashpy Berry. (Lynchburg, Va. : J.P. Bell Co., [1920?]], 1920), by Silas Nashpy Berry (page images at HathiTrust)

• The African Preacher: An Authentic Narrative (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, c1849), by William S. White
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
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• From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit: The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph; The Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life (Boston: J. H. Earle, 1893), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1977), by Raymond Gavins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide, Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself; With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery (Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849), by Henry Box Brown, contrib. by Charles Stearns
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written By Himself (first English edition; Manchester, UK: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851), by Henry Box Brown
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
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• The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• John Jasper : the unmatched Negro philosopher and preacher (Fleming H. Revell, 1908), by William Eldridge Hatcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Confessions of Nat Turner (Richmond: T. R. Gray, 1832), by Nat Turner, ed. by Thomas R. Gray
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  • transcription of main section: HTML with commentary in the Netherlands
• The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. (Baltimore: T. R. Gray, 1831), by Nat Turner, ed. by Thomas R. Gray
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • PDF with commentary at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• "Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are": An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918 (Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, 1992), by Bradley M. McDonald, Kenneth E. Stuck, and Kathleen Joan Bragdon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Travel in North America (University of the State of New York, 1897), by Grace F. Leonard, Minnie Cornwell Wilson, and New York State Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Istorīi͡a slavnykh gosudareĭ i velikikh generalov : s razsuzhdenīi͡ami o nikh postupkakh i di͡elakh (Pri Imperatorskoĭ Akademīi Nauk, 1792), by David Etienne Choffin and IAkov Kozel skoi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schilderung des Lebens und Charakters der Thaten ... berühmter ... Menschen (In der Dollischen Buchhandlung, 1798), by Karl August Schiller and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cambridge Platonists being selections from the writings of Benjamin Whichcote, John Smith and Nathanael Culverwel (Clarendon Press, 1901), by Benjamin Whichcote, Nathanael Culverwel, John Smith, and E. T. Campagnac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire ecclesiastique du dix-septieme siecle. (A. Pralard, 1970), by Louis Ellies Du Pin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Pilgrims and the Anglican Church (Remington & Co., 1887), by William Deverell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The revival of priestly life in the seventeenth century in France. (Longmans, Green, 1903), by H. L. Sidney Lear (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ecclesiastical and political history of the popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Lea & Blanchard, 1841), by Leopold von Ranke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defensio declarationis conventûs cleri gallicani an. 1682. de ecclesiasticâ potestate (Sumptibus Societatis, 1745), by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet and Catholic Church. Assemblée générale du clergé de France (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ecclesiastical and political history of the popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (J. Murray, 1841), by Leopold von Ranke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private thoughts upon religion, digested into twelve articles, with practical resolutions form'd thereupon. (Printed for W. Taylor, 1709), by William Beveridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of tracts, publish'd in vindication of Mr. Lock's Reasonableness of Christianity, as deliver'd in the Scriptures; and of his Essay, concerning humane understanding ... (A. and J. Churchill, 1706), by S. Bold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth of the Christian religion. (Law and Whittaker, 1743), by Hugo Grotius, John Clarke, and Jean Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private thoughts on religion, and a Christian life. (Printed by Thomas Kite for E. Littell, 1829), by William Beveridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blaise Pascal ([s.n.], 1926), by Charles Bourquin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The reasonableness of Christianity, as delivered in the Scriptures. (Printed for Awnsham and J. Churchil, 1695), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vindication of the reasonableness of Christianity (Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil., 1696), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private thoughts upon a Christian life (Printed for J. and J. Knapton, 1728), by William Beveridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The age of revolution : being an outline of the history of the church from 1648 to 1815 (Macmillan, 1908), by William Holden Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sovereigns and nations of Southern Europe : in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : more commonly known as Ranke's History of the popes, and of the Spanish and Ottoman Empires (Whittaker, 1843), by Leopold von Ranke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reasonableness of Christianity, as delivered in the Scriptures to which are added, an essay on the understanding of St. Paul's epistles: and a discourse on mircles...with a biographical essay, an appendix and notes... (Rickerby, 1836), by John Locke and A. J. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth of the Christian religion. In six books. (London : Printed for B. Law and Son, W. Otridge, R. Baldwin, and F. & C. Rivington, 1793., 1793), by Hugo Grotius, John Clarke, and Jean Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)
• The kingdom of God among men a tract of the sound state of religion, or that Christianity which is described in the holy Scriptures and of the things that make for the security and increase thereof in the world, designing its more ample diffusion among the professed Christians of all sorts and its surer propagation to future ages : with The point of church-unity and schism discuss'd / by John Corbet. (London : Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1679), by John Corbet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse of the knowledge of God, and of our selves I. by the light of nature, II. by the sacred Scriptures / written by Sir Matthew Hale, Knight ... for his private meditation and exercise ; to which are added, A brief abstract of the Christian religion, and, Considerations seasonable at all times, for the cleansing of the heart and life, by the same author. (London : Printed by B.W. for William Shrowsbery ..., 1688), by Matthew Hale (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse of the excellency of Christianity (London : Printed for Walter Kettilby, 1671), by Henry Hallywell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A systeme or body of divinity consisting of ten books : wherein the fundamentals and main grounds of religion are opened, the contrary errours refuted, most of the controversies between us, the papists, Arminians, and Socinians discussed and handled, several Scriptures explained and vindicated from corrupt glosses : a work seasonable for these times, wherein so many articles of our faith are questioned, and so many gross errours daily published / by Edward Leigh. (London : Printed by A.M. for William Lee, 1654), by Edward Leigh (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The reasonableness of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures (London : Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil ..., 1695), by John Locke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A second vindication of The reasonableness of Christianity, &c, by the author of The reasonableness of Christinaity, &c. (London : Printed for A. and J. Churchill... and Edward Castle ..., 1697), by John Locke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The exceptions of Mr. Edwards in his Causes of atheism against the Reasonableness of Christianity, as deliver'd in the Scriptures, examin'd and found unreasonable, unscriptural, and injurious also it's clearly proved by many testimonies of Holy Scripture, that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the only God and Father of Christians. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the Year MDCXCV [1695]), by Stephen Nye (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches. The first part with an answer to the discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of Pauls, and in defence of the vindication of non-conformists from the guilt of schisme / by John Owen. (London : Printed by J. Richardson, for Nath. Ponder ..., and Sam. Lee ..., 1681), by John Owen (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Quadriga salutis, or, The four general heads of Christian religion surveyed and explained ... with some few annotations annexed at the latter end. (London : Printed by Sarah Griffin for Philip Chetwind, 1657), by Thomas Powell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dr. Sherlock's preservative considered the first part, and its defence, proved to contain principles which destroy all right use of reason, fathers, councils, undermine divine faith, and abuse moral honesty : in the second part, forty malicious calumnies and forged untruths laid open, besides several fanatical principals which destroy all church discipline, and oppose Christs divine authority : in two letters of Lewis Sabran of the Society of Jesus. (London : Printed by Henry Hills ..., 1688), by Lewis Sabran (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Certain positions concerning the fundamentals of Christianity which brings salvation to all that entertain them (London : Printed for Richard Woodnothe, 1657) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming by Tho. Doolittle ... (London : Printed for Tho. Cockerill ..., 1692), by Thomas Doolittle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The nature of apostasie from the profession of the Gospel, and the punishment of apostates declared, in an exposition of Heb. 6, 4, 5, 6, : with an enquiry into the causes and reasons of the decay of the power of religion in the world ... also, of the proneness of churches and persons of all sorts unto apostasie, with remedies, and means of prevention / by John Owen. (London : Printed for N. Ponder, 1676), by John Owen (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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