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Several thousand items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience."

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The reception of the "Ah-Haussoo-Noh-Beh," or "Queens Mouths." (1851) Digital ID: 1167946 The reception of the " Ah-Haussoo-Noh-Beh," or " Queens Mouths." (1851) Digital ID: 1167946

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The aborigines of Porto Rico and neighboring islands, by Jesse Walter Fewkes. (1907)
Account of a shooting excursion on the mountains near Dromilly estate, in the parish of Trelawny, and island of Jamaica, in the month of October 1824. (1825)
An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added an account of the present state of medicine among them. (1803)
An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798: including cursory observations on the geology and geography of the southern part of that continent; the natural .... (1802)
Advance in the Antilles. (1910)
Affairs of West Africa, by Edmund D. Morel; With illustrations and maps. (1902)
L'Affrique et le peuple affriquain, consideres sous tous leurs rapports avec notre commerce & nos colonies; De l'abus des privileges exclusifs, & notamment de celui de la Compagnie du Senegal . Ce que.... (1789)
Africa and the American flag. (1854)
Africa explored; or, A judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa, by Vaillant ... [and others] (1796)
Africa in the nineteenth century, by Edgar Sanderson. ([1898?])
Africa redeemed : or, The means of her relief illustrated by the growth and prospects of Liberia. (1851)
Africa, by J. Scott Keltie. Rev. and edited by Albert Galloway Keller. ([1906])
Africa, containing a description of the manners and customs, with some historical particulars of the Moors of the Zahara, and of the Negro nations between the rivers Senegal and Gambia. Vol I & IV (1821)
Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands ... collected .... (1670)
Africæ: nova descriptio. (ca. 1600)
Afrika. Eine allgemeine landeskunde von Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Sievers. Holzssschnitt und Chromodruck von E. T. Compton, E. Henn, W. Kuhnert, G. Mutzel, O. Winkler. (1891)
Afrika; dets opdagelse, erobring og kolonisation. Populaert frematillet. (1901)
Afrique australe, Cap de Bonne-Esperance, Congo, etc.: Afrique orientale, Mozamboque, Monomotapa, Zanguebar, Gallas, Kordofan, etc., Afrique centrale, Darfour, Soudan, Bornou, Tombouctou, Grand desert.... (1848)
L'Afrique equatoriale. Gabonais, Pahouins, Gallois, par le marquis de Compiegne. Ouvrage enrichi d'une carte speciale et de gravures sur bois dessinees par L. Breton d'apres des photographies et des c.... (1875)
L'Afrique francaise, l'empire de Maroc, et les deserts de Sahara; conquetes, victoires et decouvertes des Francais, depuis la prise d'Alger jusqu'a nos jours. (1846)
L'Afrique occidentale française; ouvrage illustré de 49 gravures tirées hors texte et d'une carte en noir. (1912)
Afrique orientale; Abssinie. / Par Achille Raffray, chargé par le ministère de l'instruction publique d'une mission scientifique dans l'Afrique orientale. Ouvrage enrichi d'une carte spéciale et de gr.... (1876)
L'Afrique Équatoriale Française: le pays, les habitants, la colonisation, les pouvoirs publics. Préf. de M. Merlin. Avec 186 reproductions photographiques, 33 diagrammes, profils, et 7 cartes dont 5 e.... (1918)
L'Afrique équatoriale. Okanda, Bangouens, Osyéba. Par le marquis de Compiègne. Ouvrage enrichi d'une carte spéciale et de gravures sur bois dessinées par L. Breton d'après des photographies et des cro.... (1885)
Afro-American church work and workers. (1904)
The Afro-American press and its editors / by I. Garland Penn ... ; with contributions by Frederick Douglass ... [et al.] (1891)
Album // Female Society, for Birmingham, West-Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the Relief of British Negro Slaves. (1829?)
Album of Martinique. (1872)
Alexandre Dumas.
America revisited: from the bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Lake Michigan to the Pacific. By George Augustus Sala. Illustrated with nearly 400 engravings. 2d ed. (1882)
The American anti-slavery almanac (1836-1844)
American caricatures pertaining to the Civil War. (1918)
American civilization and the Negro: the Afro-American in relation to national progress. (1916)
American slave trade; or, An account of the manner in which the slave dealers take free people from some of the United States of America, and carry them away, and sell them as slaves in other of the s.... (1822)
The American slave-trade; an account of its origin, growth and suppression, by John R. Spears, illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. (1901)
The American transportation problem; a study of American transportation conditions with a view to ascertaining what policy Americans should adopt in order to effectively meet existing conditions and b.... (1909)
Among the Ibos of Nigeria, an account of the curious & interesting habits, customs, & beliefs of a little known African people by one who has for many years lived amongst them on close & intimate term.... (1921)
Angelo Soliman, der hochfurstliche Mohr : ein exotisches Kapitel Alt-Wien / Wilhelm A. Bauer. (c1922)
De Angola á contra-costa; descripção de uma viagem atravez do continente africano ... por H. Capello [e] R. Ivens ... Vol. II. (1886)
Annuaire general d'Haiti; C. Celestin, B. Danache, directeurs. (1926)
The annual meeting and convention, held in the city of Albany, New York, May 26, 1892. Compiled from the notes of Richard T. Smith. ([1892])
Anthony Burns, a history. (1856)
Anti-slavery almanac, 1846. (1846)
The Anti-slavery record. ([1835-1837])
An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans. (1833)
L'Asie, l'lnsulinde, l'Afrique, par P. Vidal de la Blache & P. Camena d'Almeida. Nouv. éd. (6e) entièrement refondue et illustrée. (1914)
A l'assaut de l'Afrique. (1901)
At the back of the Black man's mind: or notes on the kingly office in West Africa; By R. E. Dennett. (1906)
Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others; character studies among the old slaves of the South, fifty years after. (1915)
Aunt Sally; or, The cross the way of freedom. A narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan. (1858)
An authentic narrative of the Seminole war; and of the miraculous escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and her four female children. Annexed is a minute detail of the horrid massacres of the Whites, by the In.... (1836)
Autobiography of James L. Smith : including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (1881)
An autobiography; the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist; containing an account of her life work of faith, and her travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotla.... (1893)
Autographs for freedom / edited by Julia Griffiths. (1854)
Autographs for freedom. (1853)
Aux Antilles / par Victor Meignan. Ouvrage enrichi de huit gravures dessinées par Breton d'après des photographies et des croquis de l'auteur. (1878)
Biography and achievements of the colored citizens of Chattanooga, 1904. (1904)
Black America. (1929)
Black Haiti; a biography of Africa's eldest daughter, by Blair Niles ... illustrated from photographs by Robert Niles, jr. (1926)
The black laws! / speech of Hon. B. W. Arnett of Greene County, and Hon. J.A. Brown of Cuyahoga County, in the Ohio House of Representatives, March 10, 1886. (1886)
The black man of the South, and the Rebels, or, characteristics of the former, and the recent outrages of the latter / by Charles Stearns, a northern teacher, missionary, and planter, and an eye-wit.... (1872)
The black man's burden, by William H. Holtzclaw with an introduction by Booker T. Washington ... illustrated by portraits and views. ([c1915])
Black residents near the Capitol in Washington. (1840)
The black soldier; or, the colored boys of the United States army. (1918)
Blancs et noirs; carnet de voyage: Haïti, Cuba, Jamaïque, États-Unis. Texte illustré de nombreuses photographies prises par l'auteur. (1919)
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. (1861)
The book of the West Indies. (1917)
The Book of Travels in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. (c1846)
The book of Trinidad / edited by T. B. Jackson. (1904)
Booker T. Washington, builder of a civilization, by Emmett J.Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe; with a preface by Theodore Roosevelt. (1916)
Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770.
The Bow in the cloud; or, The Negro's memorial : A collection of original contributions, in prose and verse, illustrative of the evils of slavery, and commemorative of its abolition in the British col.... (1834)
Brief report of the services rendered by the freed people to the United States Army in North Carolina : in the spring of 1862 after the battle of Newbern. (1864)
A brief sketch of the early history of British Guiana, with the origin and abolition of slavery; also the industrial, religious and social status of the African population since its emancipation, a.... (1916)
Brief sketch of the life and labors of Rev. Alexander Bettis; also an account of the founding and development of the Bettis Academy, by Alfred W. Nicholson. ([c1913])
Britain across the seas: Africa; a history and description of the British Empire in Africa. ([1910])
British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi, by Sir Harry H. Johnston ... with six maps and 220 illustrations.... (1897)
British West Africa; its rise and progress. (1900)
The British West Indies; their history, resources and progress, by Algernon E. Aspinall. (1912)
Broadsides collection
C. G. A. Oldendorps Geschichte der Mission der evangelischen Bruder auf den caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan. Herausgegeben durch Johann Jakob Bossart. Mit sieben Kupfertafeln. (1777)
A campanha d'Africa. / contada por um sargento. Illustrada com gravuras de retratos, vistas e combates. (1896)
The capture and execution of John Brown; a tale of martyrdom; by Elijah Avey, eye witness. ([1906])
Las castas mexicanas : un genero pictorico americano = The castes : a genre of Mexican painting / Maria Concepcion Garcia Saiz ; prologos de Diego Angulo Iniguez, Roberto Moreno de los Arcos, Miguel .... (1989)
La cause des esclaves negres et des habitans de la Guinee, portee au tribunal de la justice, de la religion, de la politique; ou, Histoire de la traite & de l'esclavage des negres, preuves de leur ill.... (1789)
The Centennial Jubilee of Freedom at Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, September 22, 1888 : orations, poems, and addresses. (1888)
The Child's anti-slavery book: containing a few words about American slave children. And stories of slave life. ([1860])
The Choctaw freedmen and the story of Oak Hill industrial academy, Valliant, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, now called the Alice Lee Elliott memorial ; including the early history of the Five Civilized T.... ([c1914])
Christian reconstruction in the South. ([c1909])
Church of the Crucifixion, Philadelphia, Pa., semi-centennial, May, 1847-May, 1897. A historical discourse delivered by Rev. Henry L. Phillips. (1897)
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. (1905)
A collection from the newspaper writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. (1847)
The college of life : or, Practical self-educator, a manual of self-improvement for the colored race forming an educational emancipator and a guide to success. Giving examples and achievements of succ.... ([c1900?])
Colonie de la Côte d'Ivoire. Cercle du Bas-Cavally au point de vue politique et économique, us et coutumes, par le docteur Crudeli, Joseph. (1914)
Les colonies françaises; petite encyclopédie coloniale publiée sous la direction de M. Maxime Petit; avec la collaboration de MM.: J. Alix, A. Baudrillart, Augustin Bernard, Fr. Bernard, E. Blochet, C. Bruno.
A colonisação de Angola / por J. Pereira do Nascimento e A. Alexandre de Mattos. (1912)
The colored American from slavery to honorable citizenship, by Prof. J. W. Gibson and Prof. W. H. Crogman. Special features: National Negro Business League and introduction by Prof. Booker T. Was.... (1903)
The Colored American Republican text book : a book of facts and figures, showing what the Republican Party has done for the Afro-American. ([1899?])
The colored inventor : a record of fifty years / by Henry E. Baker... ([c1913])
The colored man in the Methodist Episcopal Church. (1890)
The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons: to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans. / by Wil.... (1855)
The cradle of the deep; an account of a voyage to the West Indies. (1908)
The cradle of the deep; an account of a voyage to the West Indies. With illustrations from photographs by the author, and maps. (1920)
The Crisis.
Cronicas de Santiago de Cuba. (1908-1924)
The cruise of the Scythian in the West Indies. ([c1899])
The crusader. (1918-1922)
Crusading in the West Indies. ([c1922])
Cuba with pen and pencil. (1873)
A cudgelling match between English & French Negroes in the island of Dominica. (ca. 1810)
Côte occidentale d'Afrique : vues, scènes, croquis / Colonel Frey ; nombreuses illustrations de Bretegnier ... [et al.] (1890)
A la Côte occidentale d'Afrique. / Préface de Jean Bayol. (1894)
Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year the king o.... (1851)
The dark continent; Africa, the landscape and the people. ([1931])
Dawn in darkest Africa. (1912)
Death struggles of slavery : being a narrative of facts and incidents, which occured in a British colony, during the two years immediately preceding Negro emancipation. 3rd edition. (1868)
A decade of Negro extension work, 1914-1924. ([1926])
Demonstrations [graphic].
Description de l'Afrique, contenant les noms, la situation & les confins de toutes ses parties, leurs rivieres, leurs villes & leurs habitations, leurs plantes & leurs animaux; les moeurs, les coutume.... (1686)
Description de l'univers ... (1683)
Description de la Nigritie. Par m.P.d.P., ancien conseiller au Conseil souverain de Senegal, & ensuite commandant du Fort Saint- Louis de Gregoy, au royaume de Juda, & de present gouverneur pour le.... (1789)
Description generale, historique, geographique et physique de la colonie de Surinam. (1769)
The devil between the white man and the Negro, by W. A. Freeman. (1907)
Division and reunion, 1829-1889, by Woodrow Wilson. (1893)
Dixie after the war; an exposition of social conditions existing in the South, during the twelve years succeeding the fall of Richmond. By Myrta Lockett Avary. With an introduction by General Clement .... (1906)
Dixie; or, Southern scenes and sketches, by Julian Ralph ... (1896)
Documentary history of reconstruction : political, military, social, religious, educational & industrial, 1865 to the present time / by Walter L. Fleming. (1906-07)
Door West-Indië: Antillen, Panama, Venezuela, Britsch Guyana, Suriname, door dr. C. J. Wijnaendts Francken. (1915)
Down the islands, a voyage to the Caribbees, by William Agnew Paton; with illustrations from drawings by M. J. Burns. (1887)
Du Niger au Golfe de Guinée par le pays de Kong et le Mossi, par le capitaine Binger (1887-1889) Ouvrage contenant une carte d'ensemble, de nombreux croquis de détail et cent soixante-seize gravures s.... (1892)
Du Niger au Golfe de Guinée par le pays de Kong et le Mossi, par le capitaine Binger (1887-1889) Ouvrage contenant une carte d'ensemble, de nombreux croquis de détail et cent soixante-seize gravures s.... (1892)
The earth and its inhabitants, Africa. (1890-1893 [v.1, 1892])
Ecclesia Africana sub primate Carthaginiensi ... opus continens dissertationes quatuor, in quarum prima agitur de exordio Africanae Ecclesiae ... in secunda de fide & ritibus Africanae Ecclesiae ... i.... (1679)
Echoes from the gospel trumpet; three sermons and a paper. (1896)
An economic study of Negro farmers as owners, tenants, and croppers, by Donald Dewey Scarborough. ([1924])
The education and economic development of the Negro in Virginia. ([1923?])
Education in the United States; a series of monographs, ed. by Nicholas Murray Butler. ([c1910])
Efforts for social betterment among Negro Americans; report of a social study made by Atlanta University under the patronage of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund; together with the proceedings o.... ([c1910])
En Afrique centrale Niger-Bénoué-Tchad / Avec une carte dressée par l'auteur d'après ses itinéraires et observations astronomiques. Lettre-préface de Lucien Hubert. Dessins de Ch. Madvig. (1906)
En Guinee / Claudius Madrolle. Ouvrage illustre d'un portrait par J. F. Raffaelli et de 300 dessins par L. Cahours, accompagnes de 22 plans ou cartes. (1895)
Ensayos politicos, sociales y economicos. (1899)
Ensayos politicos. Segunda serie. (1896)
The envoy. From free hearts to the free. (1840)
Episodios de las guerras de independencia de Cuba, en que tomo parte principal Antonio Maceo. (1910)
España en el África occidental Río de Oro y Guinea Con dibujos y fotografias de M. G. de Enciso. (1910)
Esquisse générale des langues de l'Afrique et plus particulièrement de l'Afrique fraçaise. Par M. Delafosse. (1914)
Esquisses Sénégalaises. (1853)
Evidence upon oath touching the condition and treatment of the Negro population of the British West India colonies. Part I: Island of Jamaica. Taken before a Select Committee of the House of Lords, se.... (1833)
Excursions in Western Africa, and Narrative of A Campaign in Kaffir-Land, on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief. (1840)
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. ([1858])
The experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. Written by a friend, as related to him by Brother Jones. (1871)
Explorations in South-west Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. By Thomas Baines. (1864)
Faits relatifs a la traite des noirs. (1826)
Farm Security Administration Collection.
The fetish folk of West Africa. ([c1912])
A few thoughts on this and that. ([c1909])
The fifteenth amendment.
Fifty years in the gospel ministry; twenty-seven years in the pastorate; sixteen years' active service as chaplain in the U.S. army; seven years professor in Wilberforce university; two trips to Europ.... ([1921?])
Fifty years in the Lombard Street Central Presbyterian Church. (1894)
The first Colored Baptist church in North America. Constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788. With biographical sketches of the pastors. (1888)
Five hundred thousand strokes for freedom ; a series of anti-slavery tracts, of which half a million are now first issued by the friends of the Negro. (1853)
Five years' residence in the West Indies. By Charles William Day. (1852)
The Florida exiles and the war for slavery : or, The crimes committed by our government against the maroons, who fled from South Carolina and other slave states, seeking protection under Spanish law.... (1863)
Florida plantation records from the papers of George Noble Jones, edited by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and James David Glunt. ([c1927])
Folk beliefs of the southern Negro. (1926)
Folk song of the American Negro / John Wesley Work. (c1915)
Following the color line; an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy, by Ray Stannard Baker. (1908)
Four years' residence in the West Indies. (1830)
La France au Dahomey. (1895)
Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper.
Les français au Niger; voyages et combats, par le Capitaine Pietri. Ouvrage contenant 28 gravures et une carte. (1885)
Free military school for applicants for commands of colored troops : no. 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Established by Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, John H. Taggart, lat.... (1864)
The freedom-seekers : Blacks in early Canada. (1981)
From freedom to slavery. ([1900])
From log cabin to the pulpit, or, fifteen years in slavery. ([1903?])
From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol; or, The first and only Negro representative in Congress from the Old Dominion. John Mercer Langston. ([c1894])
The General Education Board : an account of its activities, 1902-1914. (1915)
General program of the sessions and anniversaries of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, held in St. Paul A.M.E. Church and the Auditorim, Columbus, Ohio, beginning May 7.... (1900)
George Grenfell and the Congo; a history and description of the Congo Independent State and adjoining districts of Congoland, together with some account of the native peoples and their languages, the.... (1908)
Geschichte der Insel Hayti und ihres Negerstaats. (1846)
Gilbert Academy and Agricultural College, Winsted, Louisiana: sketches and incidents, selections from journal. (1893)
Gleanings in Africa; exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope and surrounding country. With a full and comprehensive account of the.... (1806)
Glimpses of Africa, West and Southwest coast ; containing the author's impressions and observations during a voyage of six thousand miles from Sierra Leone to St. Paul de Loanda and return, including .... (1895)
Golden jubilee of the General Association of Colored Baptists in Kentucky : the story of 50 years' work from 1865 - 1915 including many photos and sketches, compiled from unpublished manuscripts an.... (1915)
Golden thoughts on chastity and procreation : including heredity, prenatial influences, etc., etc. Sensible hints and wholesome advice for maiden and young man, wife and husband, mother and father, b.... ([1914])
The Gospel among the slaves. A short account of missionary operations among the African slaves of the Southern States. Compiled from original sources and edited by W. P. Harrison. (1893)
The gospel of slavery: a primer of freedom. ([c1864])
Gouldtown, a very remarkable settlement of ancient date; studies of some sturdy examples of the simple life, together with sketches of early colonial history of Cumberland County and southern New Jers.... (1913)
The great South. ([c1874])
La guerre noire; conquete du Dahomey. ([n.d.])
Haiti: its dawn of progress after years in a night of revolution. ([1921])
Haitian revolution research materials, 1791-[ca. 1950]. (1791-[1804])
The Haitian revolution, 1791 to 1804; or, Side lights on the French revolution. (1914)
Half a century of Lutheranism among our colored people. (1927)
A half century of freedom of the Negro in Ohio. ([1915])
Harlem, Mecca of the new Negro. (1925)
Harper's weekly.
Haut-Sénégal et Moyen-Niger : Kita et Segou / par A. Pérignon. (1901)
Helen Armstead-Johnson theater photograph collection : Armstead-Johnson Foundation for Theater Research.
The higher law, in its relations to civil government: with particular reference to slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law. By William Hosmer. (1852)
The highlands of Aethiopia. (1844)
Histoire complete des voyages et decouvertes en Afrique, ... (1821)
Histoire complète des voyages et découvertes en Afrique, depuis les siècles les plus reculés jusqu'a nos jours. (1821-)
Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue. Ecrite particulierement sur des memoires manuscrits du P. Jean-Baptiste le Pers, Jesuite, missionnaire a Saint Domingue, & sur les pieces originales, qu.... (1731)
Histoire militaire de la guerre d'independance de Saint-Domingue. (1925-1928)
Historic sketches of the South. (1914)
An historical account of the black empire of Hayti: comprehending a view of the principal transactions in the revolution of Saint Domingo; with its ancient and modern state. (1805)
Historical and souvenir journal commemorating the forty-fourth session of the United Supreme Council, 33° : Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Free Masonry of the Northern Jurisdiction, Prince Hall, o.... ([1925])
History of American conspiracies: a record of treason, insurrection, rebellion & c., in the United States of America, from 1760 to 1860. ([1863])
The history of Dahomy, an inland Kingdom of Africa. (1793)
The history of Jamaica or, General survey of the antient and modern state of the island: with reflections on its situation, settlements, inhabitants, climate, products, commerce, laws and government, .... (1774)
History of Morehouse College, written on the authority of the Board of Trustees, by Benjamin Brawley. (c1917)
The history of my life and work; autobiography by Rev. M. L. Latta. Introduction by Rev. George Daniel. Illustrations by Tucker Engraving Company. ([c1903])
The history of Negro servitude in Illinois, and of the slavery agitation in that state, 1719-1864. ([c1904])
The History of Prince Lee Boo: to which is added the life of Paul Cuffee, a man of colour, also some account of John Sackhouse, the Esquimaux. (1822)
The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern. The forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome. The African slave trade and the political hist.... (1859)
History of the A.M.E. Zion Church in America; founded in 1796, in the city of New York. ([c1884])
History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; by Daniel A. Payne. Edited by Rev. C. S. Smith. (1891)
History of the Afro-American group of the Episcopal Church / by George F. Bragg. (1922)
History of the American Negro : Virginia edition / edited by A.B. Caldwell. (1921)
History of the American Negro : North Carolina edition / edited by A.B. Caldwell. (1921)
History of the American Negro and his institutions : Georgia edition / edited by A.B. Caldwell. (1917)
A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races, by Sir Harry H. Johnston ... With eight maps by the author and J.G. Bartholomew. (1899)
The history of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church in America: comprising its organization, subsequent development, and present status ([1898])
History of the Colored race in America : Containing also their ancient and modern life in Africa, modes of living, employments, customs, habits, social life, etc., the origin and development of slaver.... (1887)
History of the Eighth Illinois United States Volunteers. (1899)
History of the First African Baptist Church, from its organization, January 10th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the centennial celebration, addresses, sermons, etc. (c1888)
The history of the last quarter-century in the United States, 1870-1895. (1897, c1896)
The history of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone, including the expedition to Cuba, for the purpose of procuring Spanish chasseurs; and the state.... (1803)
The history of the Negro church. (c1921)
History of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1880. Negroes as slaves, as soldiers, and as citizens; together with a preliminary consideration of the unity of the human family, an historical sketc.... (1885)
History of the United States, from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902, by E. Benjamin Andrews. ([c1894-1903])
A history of the West Indies, containing the natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history of each island; with an account of the missions instituted in those islands, from the commencement of their civi.... (1808-1811)
The history, civil and commercial, of the British West Indies.... With a continuation to the present time. 5th ed., with maps and plates. Atlas. (1818)
Homes of the freed, by Rossa B. Cooley, with an introd. by J. H. Dillard ... and four wood cuts by J. J. Lankes. (1926)
How to solve the race problem : the proceedings of the Washington Conference on the Race Problem in the United States / addresses, resolutions and debates by eminent men of both races and in every w.... (1904)
Howard Orphanage and Industrial School photograph collection. (ca. 191-)
The human heart illustrated by nine figures of the heart; representing the different stages of life, and two death-bed scenes: the wicked and the righteous. (1898)
In Afric's forest and jungle: or six years among the Yorubans; By Rev. R. H. Stone. ([c1899])
In the tropics : or, Scenes and incidents of West Indian life / by Jabez Marrat. (1876)
In the vanguard of a race. (c1922)
The industrial history of the Negro race of the United States. (1911)
The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / written by himself. (1790)
Iobi Ludolfi alias Leut=holf dicti Historia aethiopica, sive Brevis & succincta descriptio regni Habessinorvm, quod vulgo male Presbyteri Iohannis vocatur. In qua libris qvatvor agitur. I. De natura &.... (1681)
Isles of spice and palm. (1915)
Ismailia; a narrative of the expedition to Central Africa for suppression of the slave trade. Organized by Ismail, khedive of Egypt. (1875)
J. W. thinks black. (c1922)
Jack Johnson in the ring and out / by Jack Johnson ; with introductory articles by "Tad" Ed. W. Smith, Damon Runyon and Mrs. Jack Johnson ; special drawings by Edwin William Krauter. (1927)
Jamaica. (1906)
Jamaica; its past and present state. (1843)
The Jerry rescue, October 1, 1851, delivered before the Onondaga Historical Association, October 21, 1921. Additional Jerry rescue documents and rescue of Harriet Powell in Syracuse, September, 1839. .... (1924)
Jesse Alexander photograph collection.
Jogar Capoëra, ou danse de la guerre. (ca. 1835)
Journal of a residence in Ashantee, comprising notes and researches relative to the Gold Coast, and the interior of Western Africa, chiefly collected from Arabic mss. And information communicated by t.... (1824)
Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile. (1864)
Jubilee Singers number. After forty years, 1871-1911. ([1911])
The Jubilee Singers, and their campaign for twenty thousand dollars. By the Rev. G. D. Pike. (1873)
Kampen för och emot negerslafveriet; ett blad ur Förenta Staternas historia. ([1896])
Kelly Miller's history of the world war for human rights; being an intensely human and brilliant account of the world war and why and for what purpose America and the allies are fighting and the impor.... ([c1919])
The kidnapped and the ransomed. Being the personal recollections of Peter Still and his wife "Vina," after forty years of slavery. By Mrs. Kate E. R. Pickard. With an introd. by Rev. Samuel J. May; an.... ([c1856])
King Leopold's rule in Africa. (1905)
De Koulikoro à Tombouctou sur la canonnière (1894)
Kurt Fisher Haitian history collection.
Kusejr Amra ... Mit einer Karte von Arabia Petraea. [Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. Nordarabische Kommission.] (1907)
Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa. (1861)
Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa. (1857)
The lake regions of Central Africa, a picture of exploration. (1860)
The land of the white helmet, lights and shadows across Africa, by Edgar Allen Forbes. ([c1910])
Die Lander und Volker der Erde; oder, Vollstandige Beschreibung aller funf Erdtheile, Vol. III - Africa. (1819)
Landlord and tenant on the cotton plantation, by T. J. Woofter, Jr., coordinator of Rural Research, with the collaboration of Gordon Blackwell, Harold Hoffsommer, James G. Maddox, Jean M. Massell, B. .... (1936)
Leaven for doughfaces; or, Threescore and ten parables touching slavery. (1856)
The Legion of liberty! : and force of truth, containing the thoughts, words, and deeds of some prominent apostles, champions and martyrs. (1843)
The Lesser Antilles. A guide for settlers in the British West Indies, and tourists' companion ... (1889)
Letters on the Colonization Society; and on its probable results; under the following heads: the origin of the society; increase of the coloured population; manumission of slaves in this country; decl.... (1832)
Levensgeschiedenis van den Amerikaanschen slaaf, William Wells Brown, Amerikaansch afgevaardigde bij het vredescongres te Parijs, 1849, door hem zelven beschreven. Naar den 5. Engelschen druk vertaald.... (1850)
Liberia by Sir Harry Johnston ; with an appendix on the flora of Liberia by Dr. Otto Stapf ; 28 coloured illustrations by Sir Harry Johnston, 24 botanical drawings by Miss Matilda Smith, 402 black and white illustrations from the author's drawings and from photographs by the author and others, 22 maps by Mr. J. W. Addison, Capt. H. D. Pearson, R. E., Lieut. E. W. Cox, R. E., and the author.
The Liberty bell. By friends of freedom. (1839-46; 1847-58)
Life and adventures of Robert, the hermit of Massachusetts, who has lived 14 years in a cave, secluded from human society. Comprising, an account of his birth, parentage, sufferings, and providential .... (1829)
The life and times of Frederick Douglass : from 1817-1882 / written by himself ; with an introd. by the Right Hon. John Bright ; ed. by John Lobb. (1882)
Life at the South: or, "Uncle Tom's cabin" as it is. Being narratives, scenes, and incidents in the real "Life of the lowly." (1852)
Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country. (1854)
Life of Charles T. Walker, D. D. : ("The Black Spurgeon"), pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City / by Silas Xavier Floyd ; with an introduction by Robert Stuart MacArthur. (1902)
Life of Isaac Mason as a slave. (1893)
Life of Maumer Juno, of Charleston, S.C. A sketch of Juno (Waller) Seymour. ([c1892])
The Life, trial and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Brown of Ossawatomie," with a full account of the attempted insurrection at Harper's Ferry. (1859)
The Light and truth of slavery : Aaron's history. ([1843?])
Lights and shadows of African history: by the author of Peter Parley's tales. ([c1844])
Lights and shadows of African history: by the author of Peter Parley's tales. (1844)
Lincoln School for Nurses photograph collection.
Log of Slave Ship Lawrance. (1730-1731)
The looking-glass: being a true report and narrative of the life, travels and labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a colored clergyman; embracing a period of time from the year 1812 to 1854, and inc.... ([c1854])
Louisa Picquet, the octroon; or, Inside views of southern domestic life. (1861)
The loyalists and slavery in New Brunswick, by I. Allen Jack. (1898)
Lula Goins of Kentucky, a true story of the love and courtship of an Illinois colored youth and Kentucky belle. A narrative of real life together with hints to sweethearts, wives and husbands, by T.S..... ([1907?])
Lunsford Lane; or, Another helper from North Carolina. By the Rev. William G. Hawkins. (1863)
The magic box. (1922)
Manuel de piete a l'usage des hommes de couleur et des Noirs. (1818)
Maryland in Liberia / drawn under the superintendence of Com. Lynch, U.S.N., at Wm. Sides Office, Balt. ([1853])
Maternity and child care in selected rural areas of Mississippi. (1921)
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits photograph collection [graphic].
Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a native of Africa, who was enslaved in childhood, and died in Boston, January 3, 1815, aged 65 years. By a lady of Boston. (1832)
Men of mark: eminent, progressive and rising. (1887)
Methodism and the Negro, ed. by I. L. Thomas. ([c1910])
Methodist adventures in Negro education, by Jay S. Stowell. ([c1922])
Middleton A. "Spike" Harris papers, 1929-1977.
Migratory cotton pickers in Arizona, by Malcolm Brown and Orin Cassmore, under the supervision of John N. Webb, chief, Urban Surveys Section, Division of Research. (1939)
Migratory farm workers in the Atlantic coast stream. A study in the Belle Glade area of Florida. (1955)
Military photograph collection.
Military services rendered by the Haitians in the North and South American wars for independence; Savannah, Georgia, 1779; Columbia, South America, 1815. ([1921])
Miscellaneous nineteenth century collections.
Miscellaneous writings on slavery. By William Jay. (1853)
Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. (1819)
Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the westcoast; thenc.... (1857)
Missions de Gironcourt en Afrique occidentale, 1908/1909 - 1911/ 1912; documents scientifiques, publies avec le concours de l'Academie des sciences (Fonds Bonaparte), de l'Academie des inscriptions et.... (1920)
Modern history; or, the present state of all nations. (1735)
The Modern Voyager and Traveller, through Europe, Asia, Africa, & America. (1833)
Mon roman au Niger; roman d'aventures. Illustre par la photographie d'apres nature. (1902)
Moorish Science Temple of America photograph collection.
Morgan's History of the New Jersey Conference of the A.M.E. Church, from 1872 to 1887 : and of the several churches, as far as possible, from date of organization, with biographical sketches of member.... (1887)
Music and some highly musical people; containing brief chapters on 1. A description of music. 2. The music of nature. 3. A glance at the history of music. 4. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Foll.... ([c1878])
My larger education; being chapters from my experience. (1911)
My life and work, by Alexander Walters, A. M., D. D., bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. ([c1917])
My life in the South. (1898)
My Miss Nancy; Nancy Astor's Virginia "mammy" tells why "her littl' mistis ain't neber gwine lose her 'sition ober dar in Inglan'." By Ruby Vaughan Bigger. (1925)
My old Kentucky home / written and composed by Stephen Collins Foster ; illustrated. (1888, c1887)
My southern home, or, The south and its people. (1880)
My southern home: or, The South and its people. ([1880])
My spirituals, by Eva A. Jessye, illustrated by Millar of the Roland company, edited by Gordon Whyte & Hugo Frey. ([c1927])
My work and public sentiment. ([c1916])
Naar de Antillen en Venezuela, door H. van Kol ... (1904)
Naboth's vineyard; the Dominican Republic, 1844-1924. With a foreword by L.S. Rowe. (1928)
Narrative of a journey to the Zoolu country, in South Africa. (1836)
A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa. (1844)
A narrative of a voyage to Surinam, of a residence there during 1805, 1806, and 1807, and of the author's return to Europe by the way of North America, by Baron Albert von Sack. (1810)
Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa, by the River Niger, in the steam-vessels Quorra and Alburkah, in 1832, 1833 and 1834. (1837)
Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816. (1818)
The narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa. (1853)
The narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman. With introduction by Rev. Bishop Mallalieu, and commendatory notices from Rev. V. A. Cooper ... and Rev. Erastus Spaulding. (1889)
Narrative of discovery and adventure in Africa, from the earliest ages to the present time. (1844)
A narrative of events since the first of August, 1834, by James Williams, an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica. ([1837])
Narrative of Henry Watson, a fugitive slave. Written by himself. (1848)
Narrative of James Williams, an American slave, who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama. (1838)
Narrative of Joanna, an emancipated slave of Surinam. (1838)
A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper : from American slavery / [Moses Roper] ; with a preface, by the Rev. T Price. (1839)
A narrative of the expedition to Algiers in the year 1816, under the command of the Right Hon. Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth. (1819)
Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself. With an introduction by Lucius C. Matlack. 3d stereotype ed. (1849)
A narrative of the life of Rev. Noah Davis, a colored man, written by himself, at the age of fifty-four. ([c1859])
Narrative of the shipwreck of the Sophia, on the 30th of May, 1819, on the western coast of Africa, and of the captivity of a part of the crew in the desert of Sahara. With engravings. By Charles Coch.... (1822)
Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824. (1826)
Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Vol I & II. (1826)
A narrative of travels in Northern Africa, in the years 1818, 19,and 20 : accompanied by geographical notices of the course of the Niger. With a chart of the routes, and a variety of coloured plates,.... (1821)
Narrative of William W. Brown : an American slave. (1849)
Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, an.... (1806)
Narratives of the sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, sons of a soldier of the revolution, during a captivity of more than twenty years among the slaveholders of Kentucky, one of the so called Chri.... (1854)
National lyrics. By John Greenleaf Whittier. With illustrations by George G. White, H. Fenn, and Charles A. Barry. (1866)
National Youth Administration collection.
Naufrage de la frégate La Méduse : faisant partie de l'expédition du Sénégal en 1816; relation contenant les événemens qui ont eu lieu sur le radeau, dans le désert de Sahara, à Saint-Louis et au camp.... (1818)
Der Negeraufstand auf Jamaica; oder, Todeskampfe des Sclaventhums. (Ein Seitenstuck zu Onkel Tom's Hutte.) Actenmassige Darstellung der Bedruckungen, Ungerechtigkeiten, Verfolgungen und Grausamkeiten .... (1855)
Neglected neighbors: stories of life in the alleys, tenements and shanties of the national capital. ([c1908])
Negro almanac and statistics, by E.A. Johnson. (1903)
The Negro American family; Report of a social study made by the College classes of 1909 and 1910 of Atlanta University, under the patronage of the trustees of the John F. Slater Fund; together with th.... (1908)
The Negro at Mound Bayou, being an authentic story of the founding, growth and development of the "most celebrated town in the South," covering a period of twenty-two years. ([1910])
Negro education in Texas; special activities and industrial aid. S.M.N. Marrs, state superintendent of public instruction. G.T. Bludworth and D.B. Taylor, state supervisors of Negro education ... Iss.... ([1926])
Negro education: a study of the private and higher schools for colored people in the United States / prepared in cooperation with the Phelps-Stokes Fund under the direction of Thomas Jesse Jones, spec.... (1917)
Negro housing in certain Virgina cities. (1927)
The Negro in business. (c1907)
The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot, by the Chicago Commission on Race Relations. ([1922])
The Negro in medicine. (1912)
The Negro in our history. ([c1927])
The Negro in revelation, in history, and in citizenship. (1902)
The Negro in the Christian pulpit : or, The two characters and two destinies : as delineated in twenty-one practical sermons. (1884)
The Negro in the cities of the north. (1905)
The Negro in the New World / by Sir Harry H. Johnston ; with one illustration in colour by the author and 390 black and white illustrations by the author and others ; maps by Mr. J. W. Addison. ([1910])
Negro neighbors, bond and free; lessons in history and humanity. (1907)
The Negro pictorial review; a visual narrative of the Negro's glorious part in the world's greatest war. Of the Great War, by M. V. Lynk. ([1919])
Negro poets and their poems. ([c1923])
The Negro problem solved, or, Africa as she was, as she is, and as she shall be. Her curse and her cure Hollis Read. (1864)
Negro year book : an annual encyclopedia of the Negro, 1921-1922 / Monroe N. Work, editor. (1922)
The Negroes of Athens, Georgia. ([1913])
A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory coasts. (1705)
A new general collection of voyages and travels; consisting of the most esteemed relations, which have been hitherto published in any language; comprehending everything remarkable in its kind, in Euro.... (1745-47)
The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man / recollections of H. C. Bruce. (1895)
A new Negro for a new century; an accurate and up-to-date record of the upward struggles of the Negro race. The Spanish-American War, causes of it; vivid descriptions of fierce battles; superb heroism.... ([1900])
New travels into the interior parts of Africa, by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, in the years 1783, 84 and 85. Translated from the French of Le Vaillant. Illustrated with a map, delineating the rou.... (1796)
Nigeria, its peoples and its problems. (1911)
Nigerian studies: or the religious and political system of the Yoruba; By R. E. Dennet. (1910)
The North Carolina chain gang; a study of county convict road work, by Jesse F. Steiner, and Roy M. Brown. (1927)
North Carolina's social welfare program for Negroes / issued by the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. (1926)
Nos africains : la Mission Crampel, la mission Dybowski, la mission Mizon, la mission Monteil, la mission Maistre, le Soudan, le Dahomey, les missions soudanaises, le seconde mission Mizon et les puis.... (1894)
Nos grandes colonies.
Nos hommes et notre histoire : notices biographiques accompagnees de reflexions et de souvenirs personnels, hommage a la population créole, en souvenir des grands hommes qu'elle a produits et des bonn.... (1911)
Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities. (c1893)
Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba, ainsi que sur les peuplades apparentées, Les Bushongo / par E. Torday et T. A. Joyce ; aquarelles par Norman H. Hardy. (1910)
Notes taken during travels in Africa. (1839)
Notice sur la Guinée française / par M. Famechon ; publiée à l'occasion de l'Exposition universelle par les soins du comité local de l'Exposition et de M. Victor Gaboriaud. ([1900?])
Notice sur le Dahomey. Publiee a l'occasion de l'Expostion universelle sous la direction de m. Pierre Pascal. Par m. Jean Fonssagrives. (1900)
Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique. Contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, l'origine, les moeurs, la religion & le gouvernement des habitans anciens & modernes: les guerres & les gouvernement.... (1724)
Nouvelle géographie de l'île d'Haïti: contenant des notions historiques et topographiques sur les autres Antilles, par Dantès Fortunat. (1888)
Nubia and Abyssinia: comprehending their civil history, antiquities, arts, religion, literature, and natural history. (1833)
O Muata Cazembe e os povos maraves, chevas, muizas, muembas, lundas e outros da Africa austral. Diario da expedicao portuguesa comandada pelo major Monteiro e dirigida aquele imperador nos anos de 183.... (1854)
Occupations.
Official history of freemasonry among the colored people in North America : tracing the growth of masonry from 1717 down to the present day. ... (c1903)
Official history of the first African Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa.; By Charles H. Brooks (1922)
The official manual and history of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America / authorized by the third B. M. C., and approved and published by the Sub-Committee of Management ; prepared by Char.... (1894)
The official theatrical world of colored artists : national directory and guide. (1928)
The Ogowe band; a narrative of African travel, by Joseph H. Reading. (1890)
The Okavango River; a narrative of travel, exploration and adventure. (1861)
The old South and the new: a complete illustrated history of the Southern states, their resources, their people and their cities, and the inspiring story of their wonderful growth in industry and ric.... (1907)
Omaha's riot in story and picture. ([192-?])
One hundred years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; or, The centennial of African Methodism. (c1895)
One hundred years' history of the 2nd batt. West India regiment from date of raising 1795 to 1898. (1899)
Onkel Toms (Pastor Josiah Hensons) lefnadshistoria fran 1789 till 1877, berattad af honom sjelf. Med foretal af Harriet Beecher Stowe. Illustrerad upplaga. Ofversattning fran engelskan. ([1877])
Oshielle, or, Village life in the Yoruba country; from the journals and letters of a catechist there, describing the rise of a Christian church in an African village. (1857)
Our brothers and cousins: a summer tour in Canada and the States. (1859)
Our church industrial high schools for Negroes. Under the supervision of the American Church Institute for Negroes. The accredited auxiliary to the National Council of the Protestant and Episcopal Ch.... ([1923?])
Our Negro population, a sociological study of the Negroes of Kansas City, Missouri, by Asa E. Martin ... with a preface by L.A. Halbert ... ([c1913])
Our old folks. (1914)
Out of the ditch; a true story of an ex-slave / by J. Vance Lewis. (1910)
Panama and the canal in picture and prose, by Willis J. Abbot. Water-colors by E. J. Read and Gordon Grant; profusely illustrated by over 600 unique and attractive photographs taken expressly for this.... (1913)
Para blancos y negros : ensayos politicos, sociales y economicos. Cuarta serie. (1907)
Parades collection.
Un Parisien dans les Antilles. Saint Thomas; Puerto-Rico; La Havane; La vie de province sous les tropiques; ouvrage illustré de dessins de Riou. (1883)
Pastor Henry N. Jeter's twenty-five years experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church and her history. (1901)
Le pays des negres; voyage a Haiti, ancienne partie francaise de Saint-Domingue. (1881)
A peep into Uncle Tom's cabin. (1853)
The penitential tyrant; or, Slave trader reformed: a pathetic poem, in four cantos. (1807)
Personal reminiscences of the anti-slavery and other reforms and reformers. By Aaron M. Powell. (1899)
The Philadelphia colored directory, 1910 : a handbook of the religious, social, political, professional, business and other activities of the Negroes of Philadelphia. (1910)
The Philadelphia Negro; a social study, by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton. (1899)
The philosophy of Negro suffrage. (1897)
Picture of slavery in the United States of America. (1834)
Picturesque Jamaica by A. Duperly & Son with descriptive text of the Island. ([190-?])
The Pine Tree Mission. (1893)
Pioneers in West Africa. (1912)
Plantation sketches. (1899)
The plantation South, 1934-1937, by William C. Holley, Ellen Winston, T. J. Woofter, Jr. (1940)
Poro hair & beauty culture. (1922)
Practical training in Negro rural schools. ([1913])
Precis historique de la traite des noirs et de l'esclavage colonial, contenant: l'origine de la traite, ses progres, son etat actuel, et un expose des horreurs produits par le despotisme des colons. (1828)
The present state of the Cape of Good Hope: or, A particular account of the several nations of the Hottentots: their religion, government, laws, customs, ceremonies, and opinions; their art of war, pr.... (1731)
Print collection.
Proceedings of The Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. (1790-1810)
The proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica, in regard to the Maroon negroes: published by order of the Assembly. To which is prefixed, an introductory account ... (1796)
Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Hiram Grand Lodge of and for the State of Delaware, seventy-third annual communication held at Wilmington, Delaware, Dec. 11, A.L. 5922 A.D. 1922. ([1923])
Progress and achievements of the colored people. Containing the story of the wonderful advancement of the colored Americans... A handbook for self-improvement which leads to greater success. ([c1917])
Progress of a race; or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust tr.... (1897)
Progress of a race; or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty, to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust. ([c1902])
The progression of the race in the United States and Canada : treating of the great advancement of the colored race. (c1907)
Prospectus of the New Rochelle Co-operative Business League, incorporated under laws of the State of New York, 1905. (1908)
A race between two straits. (c1912)
Recollections of seventy years / by Daniel Alexander Payne ; with an introduction by F.J. Grimke ; compiled and arranged by Sarah C. Bierce Scarborough ; edited by C.S. Smith. (1888)
Recreation and amusement among Negroes in Washington, D.C. : a sociological analysis of the Negro in an urban environment. ([c1927])
Recueil de vues des lieux principaux de la colonie francoise de Saint-Domingue, gravees par les soins de M. Ponce ... accompagnees de cartes et plans de la meme colonie, graves par les soins de M. P.... (1791)
A red record. Tabulated statistics and alleged causes of lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894. Respectfully submitted to the nineteenth century civilization in "the land of the free and the .... ([1894?])
Red rubber; the story of the rubber slave trade flourishing on the Congo in the year of grace 1906. With an introduction by Sir Harry H. Johnston, and two maps. ([pref. 1906])
The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions. (1899)
Reflections on the causes that led to the formation of the Colonization Society: with a view of its probable results: under the following heads: The increase of the coloured population. The origin of .... (1832)
Regina Andrews photograph collection.
Reise in Nordost Africa : Skizzen nach der Natur gemalt 1859-1860. ([1863])
Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695. 1696. & 1697. aux cotes d'Afrique, detroit de Magellan, Bresil, Cayenne et isles Antilles, par une escadre des vaisseaux du roi, commandee par m. de Gennes. (1699)
Relation universelle de l'Afrique, ancienne et moderne. Ou l'on voit ce qu'il y a de remarquable, tant dans la terre ferme que dans lesiles, avec ce que le roy a fait de memorable contre les corsaires.... (1688)
The republic of Liberia : being a general description of the Negro republic, with its history, commerce, agriculture, flora, fauna, and present methods of administration / by R. C. F. Maugham ; with m.... ([1920?])
The Republican Party and the Afro-American. ([1908])
La republique d'Haiti telle qu'elle est; apercus: historique, geographique, ethnographique, politique, administratif, agricole, pastoral, economique, intellectuel, legislatif, financier, minier, medic.... (1910)
Resume de l'histoire de St. Domingue (Republique d'Haiti): depuis sa decouverte jusqu a ce jour : orne du portrait du General Boyer, President de ce gouvernement. (1825)
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a slave and as a freeman. A narrative of real life. (1859)
Roaming through the West Indies. (1920)
The rock of wisdom; an explanation of the sacred Scriptures. (1833)
A Sabbath scene. By John G. Whittier. Illustrations by Baker, Smith and Andrew. (1854)
Saint-Domingue a la veille de la revolution souvenirs du baron de Wimpffen. Annotes d'apres les documents d'archives et les memoires. Illustrations documentaires. ([1911])
Savage Africa; being the narrative of a tour in equatorial, southwestern and northwestern Africa; with notes on the habits of the gorilla; on the existence of unicorns and tailed men; on the slave-.... (1864)
Scenas Africanas, 1897 a 1917. ([n.d.])
A school history of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1890 : with a short introduction as to the origin of the race : also a short sketch of Liberia. (1894)
A school history of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1890: combined with the history of the Negro soldiers in the Spanish-American War : also a short sketch of Liberia. ([1969])
The scourging of a race, and other sermons and addresses by W. Bishop Johnson. (1904)
Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal history. ([1902])
Select sermons, Vol. 1, 4th ed. (1889)
Sermons delivered by Bishop Daniel A. Payne : before the General Conference of the A.M.E. Church, Indianapolis, Ind., May, 1888. (1888)
Sermons on several occasions. Volume 1. (1794-1801)
Sermons, addresses and reminiscences and important correspondence, with a picture gallery of eminent ministers and scholars. (1901)
Shadow and light: An autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century. (1902)
Shadow and sunshine. (c1906)
Shadow land; stories of the South. ([c1905])
Shadows on the wall, by Howard Weeden. ([1898])
Shipping illustrated, (v. 60, no. 774, Sept. 1917). (1917)
Silvia Dubois, (now 116 years old) : a biografy of the slav who whipt her mistress and gand her fredom. (1883)
Simms' blue book and national Negro business and professional directory; James N. Simms, compiler and publisher. (1923)
Six years of a traveller's life in Western Africa. Vol I & II. (1861)
Sketch book of Livingstone College and East Tennessee Industrial School, Salisbury, N.C. (1903)
Die Sklavenmacht. Blicke in die Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Zur Erklarung der Rebellion von 1860-65. Von Theodor S. Ray. (1865)
Slave holding in North Carolina; an economic view. (1926)
Slave life in Georgia; a narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England. Edited by L. A. Chamerovzow. (1855)
The slave states of America. By J. S. Buckingham. ([1842])
The slave trade; slavery and color, by Theodore D. Jervey. (1925)
A slave's adventures toward freedom; not fiction, but the true story of a struggle. ([1919?])
The slave's friend. (1837, Vol. II)
A slaveholder's daughter. ([c1900])
Slavery collection.
Slavery in South Carolina and the ex-slaves; or, The Port Royal Mission. (1862)
Slavery times in Kentucky. (1940)
Social life in old Virginia before the war / by Thomas Nelson Page ; with illustrations by the Misses Cowles. (1897)
Sol White's official base ball guide; edited by H. Walter Schlichter. ([cop. 1907])
Solomon Crow's Christmas pockets and other tales / by Ruth McEnery Stuart. (c1896)
Songs sung by the famous Canadian Jubilee Singers, the Royal Paragon Male Quartette and Imperial orchestra ; five years' tour of Great Britain, three years' tour of United States. ([189-?])
The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a description of the present state of the country, its agricultu.... (1866)
The South in the building of the nation; a history of the southern states designed to record the South's part in the making of the American nation; to portray the character and genius, to chronicle th.... ([c1909-13])
Southern Africa. A geography and natural history of the country, colonies, and inhabitants from the Cape of Good Hope to Angola. Together with notices of their origins, manners, habits, customs, tradi.... (1856)
A southern planter: Social life in the old south. (1900)
Souvenir of Negro progress: Chicago, 1779-1925. ([1925])
Souvenir official program and music of the Negro Young Peoples' Christian and Educational Congress : held July 31st to August 5th, 1906, Convention Hall, Washington, D.C. / edited by corresponding .... ([1906])
Souvenir program. Dr. Booker T. Washington's tour of New Jersey. September 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 1914. With a few facts about the state of New Jersey, Morristown, Montclair, Paterson, Newark, Princeton.... ([1914])
Souvenirs de la campagne du Dahomey. ([1896])
Speeches and letters. ([1898?])
The sports of Negro children. (1903)
St. Domingo, of Het land der zwarten in Hayti en deszelfs omwenteling. (1806)
Stark's history and guide to Barbados and the Caribbee Islands, containing a description of everything on or about these islands of which the visitor or resident may desire information. ([c1903])
Stereograph collection.
The stolen children; a narrative compiled from authentic sources. ([187-?])
Stories of Black folk for little folk / by Bessie Landrum. (1923)
The story of Archer Alexander : from slavery to freedom March 30, 1863 by William G. Eliot. (1885)
The story of cotton and the development of the cotton states, by Eugene Clyde Brooks. ([c1911])
The story of my life: or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years, by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the gr.... (1899)
The story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 1900-1922. ([1922?])
Street cries of an old southern city. (1910)
Street scenes.
A study of home-economics education in teacher-training institutions for Negroes, February, 1923. Issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D.C. (1923)
The Sudan : a short compendium of facts and figures about the land of darkness / by H. Karl W. Kumm ; with an introduction by the late Mrs. Karl Kumm (nee Lucy Guinness). ([1907?])
Sunshine and shadow of slave life. Reminiscences as told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" [pseud.] (1885)
Sunshine and sport in Florida and the West Indies, by F. G. Aflalo. ([1907])
The Suppressed book about slavery! Prepared for public 1857, never published until the present time. (1864)
Sur la côte d'Afrique; villes, brousses, fleuves et problèmes de l'Ouest africain / D'Anfreville de la Salle. (1912)
Sur le Niger et au pays des Touaregs : La mission Hourst. (1898)
Le Sénégal; la France dans l'Afrique occidentale; ouvrage contenant 18 gravures d'après les dessins de Riou, 3 gravures de Thiriat d'après des photographies et 5 cartes ou plans. (1889)
Sénégambie et Guinée, par m. Amédée Tardieu ... Nubie, par m. S. Chérubini ... Abyssinie, par m. Noël Desvergers ... (1847)
Teachers' year book colored schools / Published by the order of the State [Maryland] Board of Education. (1907-)
Ten thousand miles in a yacht; round the West Indies and up the Amazon. ([c1906])
Ten years' wanderings among the Ethiopians; with sketches of the manners and customs of the civilized and uncivilized tribes, from Senegal to Gaboon. By Thomas J. Hutchinson. (1861)
Thomas Clarkson : a monograph, being a contribution towards the history of the abolition of the slave-trade and slavery. (1854)
Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853-1854-1856: Including a journey to the capital: with notices of the natural history of the country and of the present civilization of the people. (1859)
Through Jamaica with a Kodak. (1907)
Through Liberia, by Lady Dorothy Mills ... ([1927?])
Tiko le négrillon; aventures d'un escalve à travers l'Afrique. Ouvrage illustré de 19 gravures. ([1702?])
Timbuctoo the mysterious / by Felix Dubois; translated from the French by Diana White ... (1897)
Timbuktu; Reise durch Marokko, die Sahara und den Sudan, ausgeführt im Auftrage der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft in Deutschland in den Jahren 1879 und 1880. (1884)
Titustown: a community of Negro homes. ([1915])
The tragedy of the Negro in America : a condensed history of the enslavment, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the Negro race in the United States of America. (c1897)
La traite des négres et la croisade africaine, comprenant la lettre encyclique de Leon XIII sur l'esclavage, le discours du cardinal Lavigerie, les temoignages des grands explorateurs: Livingstone.... (1891)
Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa. Being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H. B. M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855. Vol IV. (1857-1859)
Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope, into the interior parts of Africa : including many interesting anecdotes; with elegant plates, descriptive of the country and inhabitants / inscribed by permission .... (1790)
Travels in Africa, performed during the years 1785, 1786, and 1787, in the western countries of that continent.... / Silvester Meinrad Xavier Golberry. (1803)
Travels in Brazil. 2d ed. Vol I - II. (1817)
Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile; exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali ; and illustrating the antiquities, ar.... (1835)
Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile; exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali ; and illustrating the antiquities, ar.... (1835)
Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the Missionary Society. (1816)
Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the Missionary Society. (1815)
Travels in southern Africa in the years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806, / by Henry Lichtenstein ; translated from the original German by Anne Plumptre. (1812-1815)
Travels in the interior districts of Africa, performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association in the years 1795, 1796 and 1797. (1799)
Travels in the interior of Africa, to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia; performed by command of the French Government, in the year 1818. (1820)
Travels in the interior of Southern Africa. (1822-24)
Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima countries, in Western Africa. (1825)
Travels into the inland parts of Africa: containing a description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the River Gambia; their trade, habits, customs, language, manners, religi.... (1738)
Travels into the interior parts of Africa by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, in the years 1780, 8l, 82, 83, 84, and 85. Translated from the French. Illustrated with 12 elegant copper-plates. (1796)
Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828. Vol I & II (1830)
Travels, researches, and missionary labors, during an eighteen years' residence in Eastern Africa. Together with journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia and Khartum; and a coasting voya.... (1860)
La traversée de l'Afrique, du Zambèze au Congo français. De l'Océan Indien à l'Océan Atlantique. (1900)
Trinidad: then and now; Being a series of sketches in connection with the progress and prosperity of Trinidad, and personal reminiscences of life in that island 1874-1912. (1912)
"Truth is stranger than fiction." An autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom") from 1789 to 1879. With a preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, introductory no.... (1879)
Truth stranger than fiction. Father Henson's story of his own life. With an introduction by Mrs. H.B. Stowe. (1858)
Tuskegee and its people: their ideals and achievements. (1906)
Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana. (1853)
Twentieth century Jamaica / by H. G. Lisser. (1913)
Twentieth century Negro literature, or, A cyclopedia of thought on the vital topics relating to the American Negro, by one hundred of America's greatest Negroes. ([c1902])
The twentieth century Union League directory. A compilation of the efforts of the Colored people of Washington for social betterment ... A historical, biographical, and statistical study of Colored Wa.... (1901)
The Twenty Fourth Infantry, past and present; a brief history of the regiment compiled from official records, under the direction of the regimental commander. By William G. Muller. ([1923])
Twenty years in public life, 1890-1910 : North Carolina-Tennessee. (1910)
Twenty-eight years a slave : or, The story of my life in three continents / by Thomas L. Johnson. (1909)
Twenty-nine year's work among Negroes. (1906)
Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West. 3rd edition. (1861)
Twice sold, twice ransomed autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Ray introduction by Rev. C.E. McReynolds ([1926])
Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, by Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson. ([c1920])
Umbstandliche und eigentliche Beschreibung von Africa, und denen darzu gehorigen Konigreichen und Landschaften, als Egypten, Barbarien, Libyen, Biledulgerid, dem Lande der Negros, Guinea, Ethiopie.... (1670)
Uncle Isaac; or, Old days in the South. A remembrance of the South. By William Dudley Powers... (1899)
Uncle Tom's Cabin : a tale of life among the lowly. (1897)
The Uncle Tom's cabin almanack, or, Abolitionist memento. For 1853. ([1852])
The underground railroad from slavery to freedom. (1899 [c1898])
The underground railroad: A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, & c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as rela.... (1872)
The upward path; the evolution of a race. (1911)
The Urban League Bulletin. (1922)
Vida de J. J. Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo; con notas muy circunstanciadas sobre el origen, caracter y atrocidades de los principales gefes de aquellos rebeldes desde el principio d.... (1806)
[Views of British Guiana; album.] ([1900?])
Views of Jamaica [album]
Voyage a l'Isle de France, a l'Isle de Bourbon, au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, etc. : Avec des observations nouvelles sur la nature & sur les hommes / par un officier du roi. (1773)
Voyage d' Iserts en Guinée et dans les iles Caraibes en Amerique, par Paul Erdman Isert ... Tires de sa correspondance avec ses amis. (1793)
Voyage dans le Soudan Occidental. (1872)
A voyage in the West Indies: containing various observations made during a residence in Barbadoes, and several of the Leeward Islands; with some notices and illustrations relative to the city of Param.... (1820)
Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil. (1835)
A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810; in which are included, an account of the Portugue.... (1814)
A voyage to Africa with some account of the manners and customs of the Dahomian people. (1820)
A voyage to Senegal; or, Historical, philosophical, and political memoirs relative to the discoveries, establishments and commerce of Europeans inthe Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Blanco to the river of S.... (1806)
A voyage to the river Sierra-Leone, on the coast of Africa; containing an account of the trade and productions of the country, and of the civil and religious customs and manners of the people; in a se.... (1791)
Les voyages du Sieur le Maire aux Iles Canaries, Cap-verd, Senegal, et Gambie. (1695)
Voyages en Afrique par Bruce, Adanson, Bonaparte, Levaillant, Mungo-Park, Burchell, Denham, Clapperton, Laing, Gray, Réné Caillié, Thompson, Richard, John Lander, El-Tounsy, Delegorgue. (1855)
Voyages et Decouvertes dans L'Afrique Centrale et L'Afrique Septentrionale. (1853)
[Vues D'Afrique.]
Waikna or, adventures on the Mosquito shore. (1855)
Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia; together with a description of the country and its various inhabitants. (1862)
Wanderings and adventures in the interior of Southern Africa. (1835)
Weeden's history of the Colored people of Louisville / edited and compiled by H.C. Weeden ; with an appendix containing letters from leading white citizen[s] touching upon Colored people's interests. (1897)
The welfare of children in cotton-growing areas of Texas. (1924)
West India pickles. Diary of a cruise through the West Indies in the yacht Josephine. (New York Yacht Club.) By W. P. Talboys. With numerous illustrations. ([c1875])
The West India sketch book. (1834)
The West Indies and the Spanish Main, by James Rodway. ([c1896])
The West Indies, illustrated: Historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures, & resources. (1909)
White and black under the old regime, by Victoria V. Clayton. With introduction by Frederic Cook Morehouse. ([c1899])
The white man's grave: a visit to Sierra Leone, in 1834. Vol I & II. (1836)
The white side of a black subject, enlarged and brought down to date; a vindication of the Afro-American race; from the landing of slaves at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, to the present time. (1897, c1899)
Who's who in Philadelphia : a collection of thirty biographical sketches of Philadelphia colored people ... together with cuts and information of some of their leading institutions and organizations. (1912)
Wilberforce University annual. ([1922])
The wild sports of Southern Africa : being the narrative of an expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the chief Moselekatse, to the tropic of Capricorn. (1841)
A woman rice planter. (1913)
The work of colored women; compiled by Jane Olcott, issued by the Colored Work Committee, War Work Council, National Board Young Women's Christian Associations. (1919)
Working with the hands : being a sequel to "Up from slavery, covering the author's experiences in industrial training at Tuskegee. (1904)
World Survey Conference, Atlantic City, January 7 to 10, 1920. Preliminary statement and budget for home missions. Prepared by Survey Department, Home Missions Division. ([1920])
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