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• Allen, Richard, 1760-1831
• Allensworth, Allen, 1842-1914
• Anderson, Robert, 1819-
• Arnett, Benjamin William, 1838-1906
• Aughey, John H. (John Hill), 1828-1911
• Black, Leonard
• Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921
• Bowles, Charles, 1761-1843
• Brown, Sterling N. (Sterling Nelson), 1858-1929
• Campbell, Israel, 1815?-1898
• Cooper, Thomas, -approximately 1821
• Ferrill, London
• Green, Elisha Winfield
• Heard, William H. (William Henry), 1850-1937
• Henry, Thomas W., 1794-1877
• Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883
• Hicks, Rachel, 1789-1878
• Holsey, Lucius Henry, Bishop, 1842-1920
• Jamison, M. F. (Monroe Franklin), 1848-1918
• Jasper, John, 1812-1901
• Jea, John, 1773-
• Johnson, Thomas L. (Thomas Lewis), 1836-1921
• Jones, Thomas H.
• Latta, M. L. (Morgan London), 1853-
• Lee, Jarena, 1783-
• Lowe, Thomas G., 1815-1869
• Marrs, Elijah P., 1840-
• Offley, G. W. (Greensbury Washington), 1808-1896
• Olive, Johnson, 1816-1885
• Peck, Jesse T. (Jesse Truesdell), 1811-1883
• Peterson, Daniel H.
• Powell, A. Clayton (Adam Clayton), 1865-1953
• Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
• Smith, David, 1784-
• Smith, James L. (James Lindsay)
• Tilmon, Levin, 1807-1863
• Walker, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1858-1921
• Walters, Alexander, 1858-
• White, George, 1764-
• Wilkerson, Major James

• Moscow Was My Parish (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1956), by Georges Bissonnette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., c1914), by Charles Alexander (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Luther Peck and His Five Sons (New York: Eaton and Mains; Cincinnati: Curts and Jennings, 1897), by J. K. Peck
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel (Philadelphia: The author, 1849), by Jarena Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Voice, by Margaret Deland (Gutenberg text)
• Wise and Otherwise (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1873), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)

• God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (New York: The Viking Press, 1927), by James Weldon Johnson, illust. by Aaron Douglas and C. B. Falls
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at Yale
  • multiple formats at Google

• The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware, and Georgia (Lancaster, MA: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1950), by Frederick Lewis Weis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware, and Georgia (Lancaster, MA: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1950), by Frederick Lewis Weis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware, and Georgia (Lancaster, MA: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1950), by Frederick Lewis Weis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina (Boston: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1955), by Frederick Lewis Weis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina (Boston: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1955), by Frederick Lewis Weis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina (Boston: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1955), by Frederick Lewis Weis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (with a new introduction by Singleton; New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1960), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones and George A. Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lee and Yeocum, c1887), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; title page missing
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., c1914), by Charles Alexander (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Anderson Surpriser: Written After He Was Seventy-Five Years of Age (Macon, GA: The Author, 1895), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson (Macon, GA: Printed for the author, 1892), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Poor Ben: A Story of Real Life (Nashville: Pub. House of the A.M.E. Sunday-School Union, 1890), by Lucretia H. Newman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tupelo (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Publishing Co., 1905), by John H. Aughey
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery, Written by Himself (New Bedford, MA: Press of B. Lindsey, 1847), by Leonard Black (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Lady in the Pulpit (New York: Woman's Press, c1951), by Laura Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination (with an essay on "the African race" by the author, and on the fugitive slave law by Arthur Dearing; Watertown, MA: Ingalls and Stowell's Steam Press, 1852), by John W. Lewis, contrib. by Arthur Dearing (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• My Own Life Story (Washington, DC: Hamilton Printing, 1924), by Sterling N. Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Bond and Free: or, Yearnings for Freedom, From My Green Brier House: Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom (Philadelphia: The Author, 1861), by Israel Campbell (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 London Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colored Persons, Lexington, KY (Lexington, KY: A. W. Elder, 1854) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green (Maysville, KY: Republican Printing Office, 1888), by Elisha Winfield Green (illustrated 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 of Rev. Thomas W. Henry, of the A. M. E. Church (Baltimore: The author, 1872), by Thomas W. Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson ("Uncle Tom"), From 1789 to 1881 (revised and enlarged edition; London, ON: Schuyler, Smith, and Co., 1881), by Josiah Henson, ed. by John Lobb, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, S. Morley, Wendell Phillips, and John Greenleaf Whittier (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Josiah, The Maimed Fugitive: A True Tale (London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1873), by Henry Bleby
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (Boston: A. D. Phelps, 1849), by Josiah Henson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1858), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876 (London: Christian Age Office, 1876), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, and S. Morley (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Memoir of Rachel Hicks (Written by Herself), Late of Westbury, Long Islamd, A Minister in the Society of Friends; Together With Some Letters and a Memorial of Westbury Monthly Meeting (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880), by Rachel Hicks
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses, and Essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D. (Atlanta: Franklin Print. and Pub. Co., 1898), by Lucius Henry Holsey (illustrated 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)

• 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 (New York: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by William E. Hatcher
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Compiled and Written by Himself (Portsea, UK: The author, ca. 1811), by John Jea (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)
• 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)

• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Bazin and Chandler, 1862), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Printed by D. Laing, Jr., 1850), by Thomas H. Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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