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• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Negro Musicians and Their Music (based on the first and second editions, 1936 and 1943), by Maud Cuney-Hare (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Biographical Sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin, Surnamed the Two-Headed Nightingale, and the Eighth Wonder of the World (Cincinnati, OH: Hennegan and Co, ca. 1902) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Paris Blues (New York: Ballantine Books, c1957), by Harold Flender (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographical Sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin, Surnamed the Two-Headed Nightingale, and the Eighth Wonder of the World (Cincinnati, OH: Hennegan and Co, ca. 1902) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The History of the Carolina Twins: Told in "Their Own Peculiar Way" By "One of Them", by Millie-Christine (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, by Octavia Hensel, His Friend and Pupil (Boston: O. Ditson and Co., c1870), by Mary Alice Seymour (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Music-Study in Germany: From the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay (9th edition; Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Co., 1886), by Amy Fay, ed. by Fay Peirce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Music-Study in Germany: From the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay (18th edition; New York and London: Macmillan, 1908), by Amy Fay, ed. by Fay Peirce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, by Octavia Hensel, His Friend and Pupil (Boston: O. Ditson and Co., c1870), by Mary Alice Seymour (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, by Octavia Hensel, His Friend and Pupil (Boston: O. Ditson and Co., c1870), by Mary Alice Seymour (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• 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

• Image Magazine (Athens, GA, 1977-1979) (partial serial archives)

• The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious, and Educational Side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga. (1894), by Edward R. Carter (DjVu at Georgia)

• 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)

• 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)

• Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War, by Frances Butler Leigh (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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

• History of the First African Baptist Church, From its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888 (Savannah, Ga.: The Morning News Print, 1888.), by E. K. Love (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)

• The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865-1949 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1951), by Willard Range (PDF and DjVu at Georgia)

• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (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)

• The Orphan Blind Girl (Baltimore: The author, 1870), by Anna C. Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Orphan Blind Girl (Baltimore: The author, 1870), by Anna C. Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923, by Edward J. Thomas (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of Dimmock Charlton, a British Subject, Taken from the Brig "Peacock" by the U.S. Sloop "Hornet," Enslaved While a Prisoner of War, and Retained Forty-Five Years in Bondage (Philadelphia: The editors, 1859), by Dimmock Charlton, ed. by Mary L. Cox and Susan H. Cox (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)
• Autobiography and Work of Bishop M. F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe"), Editor, Publisher, and Church Extension Secretary: A Narration of His Whole Career From the Cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America (Nashville, TN: Pub. for the author by the Publishing House of the M. E. Church, 1912), by M. F. Jamison (illustrated 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)
• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery, by William Craft and Ellen Craft
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Lehigh
  • Gutenberg text
• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (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)

• 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)

• Narrative of Dimmock Charlton, a British Subject, Taken from the Brig "Peacock" by the U.S. Sloop "Hornet," Enslaved While a Prisoner of War, and Retained Forty-Five Years in Bondage (Philadelphia: The editors, 1859), by Dimmock Charlton, ed. by Mary L. Cox and Susan H. Cox (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)

• Autobiography and Work of Bishop M. F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe"), Editor, Publisher, and Church Extension Secretary: A Narration of His Whole Career From the Cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America (Nashville, TN: Pub. for the author by the Publishing House of the M. E. Church, 1912), by M. F. Jamison (illustrated 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)

• Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1992), by Ann M. Pescatello (page images at Pitt)

• Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Neil Gould (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

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