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• 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)
• Negro Life in Rural Virginia, 1865-1934 (Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin #295; 1934), by William E. Garnett and John Malcus Ellison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Black Laws of Virginia: A Summary of the Legislative Acts of Virginia Concerning Negroes From Earliest Times to the Present (Richmond, VA: Whittet and Shepperson, 1936), by June Purcell Guild, contrib. by Virginia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mongrel Virginians: The Win Tribe (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1926), by Arthur H. Estabrook and Ivan E. McDougle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plantation Negro as a freeman; observations on his character, condition, and prospects in Virginia (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1889), by Philip Alexander Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (R. T. Hill & Co., 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religious development of the Negro in Virginia (Michie Co., 1914), by Joseph B. Earnest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro office-holders in Virginia, 1865-1895 (Guide quality press, 1945), by Luther Porter Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negroes and their treatment in Virginia from 1865 to 1867 (Printed by B. D. Smith & brothers, 1910), by John Preston McConnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in Virginia politics, 1865-1902 (University of Virginia Press, 1919), by Richard L. Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865 (Johns Hopkins Press, 1913), by John H. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in Virginia (Hastings House, 1940), by Writers' Program (U.S.) Virginia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Race relations in Virginia, 1870-1902. (University of Virginia Press, 1961), by Charles E. Wynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plantation Negro as a freeman; observations on his character, condition, and prospects in Virginia (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889), by Philip Alexander Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro housing in certain Virginia cities (The William Byrd Press, inc., 1927), by Charles Louis Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rural land ownership among the negroes of Virginia with special reference to Albemarle county (The Michie co., printers, 1915), by Samuel T. Bitting (page images at HathiTrust)
• The education and economic development of the Negro in Virginia (Suber-Arundale-company, 1923), by William Henry Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro and crime in Virginia (University of Virginia, 1936), by Bernard Peyton Chamberlain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taxation of Negroes in Virginia (The Michie Company, printers, 1916), by Tipton R. Snavely (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginia Negro artisan and tradesman (The William Byrd Press, 1926), by Raymond Bennett Pinchbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plantation Negro as a freeman; observations on his character, condition, and prospects in Virginia (Corner House Publishers, 1970), by Philip Alexander Bruce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sketches of old Virginia family servants. (Printed by I. Ashmead, 1847), by Anne Rose Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zion Town-- a study in human ecology (University of Virginia, 1935), by Howard H. Harlan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negroes and their treatment in Virginia from 1865 to 1867 (Printed by B. D. Smith & brothers, 1910), by John Preston McConnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of John C. Rutherfoord, of Goochland, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the removal from the commonwealth of the free colored population. (Printed by Ritchies & Dunnavent, 1853), by John C. Rutherfoord (page images at HathiTrust)
• The free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865 (Johns Hopkins Press, 1913), by John H. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Circular to county clerks requesting information regarding slaves called for work on public defences] (s.n., 1865), by Virginia. Secretary of the Commonwealth and George Wythe Munford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro church in rural Virginia (Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1930), by C. Horace Hamilton and John Malcus Ellison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Education for the needs of the Negro in Virginia (The Southern Education Foundation, Inc., 1943), by Frederick Milton Alexander and Southern Education Foundation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Virginia negro soldiers and seamen in the Revolutionary war (Guide Quality Press, 1944), by Luther Porter Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

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