Try These:

Allen, Richard. The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1960.

Andrews, William L. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. (includes the autobiography of Jarena Lee)

Aptheker, Herbert. American Negro Slave Revolts. New York: International Publishers, 1943.

Aptheker, Herbert. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States, Volume 1: From Colonial Times Through the Civil War. New York: Citadel Press, 1951.

Ball, Charles. Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball.... Detroit: Negro History Press, 1970.

Berlin, Ira: Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. NY, Pantheon Books, 1974

Berlin, Ira: Generations of Captivity : A History of African-American Slaves. Belknap Press, 2003

Berlin, Ira: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America . Cambridge, Harvard U. Press, 2000

Berlin, Ira (ed): Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation. New Press, 2000.

Beyan, Amos J. The American Colonization Society and the Creation of the Liberian State: A Historical Perspective, 1822-1900. Lanham: University Press of America, Inc., 1991.

Boime, Albert. The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1990.

Brekus, Catherine A. Strangers and Pilgrims : female preaching in America, 1740-1845. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Brown, Isaac V. Biography of the Rev. Robert Finley, New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969. (about the American Colonization Society)

Cheek, William F. Black Resistance Before the Civil War. Beverly Hills: Glencoe Press, 1970.

Coleman, Willi. "Architects of a Vision: Black Women and Their Antebellum Quest for Political and Social Equality," in Ann D. Gordon, ed., African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.


Douglass, Frederick: My Bondage and My Freedom. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2002 [Orig. pub: New York : Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855]

Douglass, Frederick: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. [1892] Reprints NY, Collier 1962 and others.

Douglass, William. Annals of the First African Church in the United States of America, now styled The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas. Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1862.

Egerton, Douglas. Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Ellis, Joseph J.: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Farnham, Henry W. Chapters in the History of Social Legislation in the United States to 1860. Washington, Carnegie Institution, 1938. [Pps. 416-74 Tables/ Compendium of laws relating to Blacks, by state]

Fick, Carolyn E. The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

Field, Phyllis F. The Politics of Race in New York: The Struggle For Black Suffrage in the Civil War Era. {begins ca.1800} Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1982

Foner, Eric, ed. Nat Turner. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice- Hall, Inc., 1971.

Foner, Eric: Forever Free; The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. New York : Knopf, 2005.

Foner, Eric: Freedom's Lawmakers : A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877. NY, Harper & Row, 1988

Franklin, John Hope and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994.

Fredrickson, George M. : Racism: A Short History. Princeton U. Press, 2003

Gellman, David N. & Quigley, David: Jim Crow New York. NY & London, New York University Press, 2003

Genovese: Roll, Joradan Roll: The World the Slaves Made. NY, Pantheon, 1972

George, Carol V. R.: Segregated Sabbaths: Richard Allen and the Emergence of Independent Black Churches 1760-1840. New York, Oxford University Press, 1973.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns: Team of Rivals; The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Greene, Lorenzo Johnston: The Negro in Colonial New England 1620-1776.
New York, Atheneum, 1968 [c1942]

Hamilton, J. An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of this City. Charleston, 1822.

Harding, Anneliese. John Lewis Krimmel: Genre Artist of the Early Republic. Winterthur, DE.: Winterthur Publications, 1994.

Harding, Vincent. There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1981.

Harris, Leslie M.: In The Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City 1626-1863. Chicahgo, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2003

Heinl, Robert Debs, Jr. and Nancy Gordon Heinl. Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People, 1492-1971. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.

Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., 1993.

Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women in American History: From Colonial Times Through the Nineteenth Century. Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Pub., 1990.

Hine, Darlene Clark and Kathleen Thompson. A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. New York: Broadway Books, 1998.

Honour, Hugh. The Image of the Black in Western Art, IV, Pts. 1 & 2. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Horton, James Oliver. In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Humez, Jean McMahon, ed. Gifts of Power: the Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981.

James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, division of Random House, 1963.

Jones, Norrece T. Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave : Mechanisms of Control and Strategies of Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press,1989.

Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

Kaplan, Sidney and Emma Nogrady Kaplan. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution Rev. edition. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

Katz, William Loren. Eyewitness: A Living Documentary of the African American Contribution to American History Revised and Updated. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Klots, Steve. Richard Allen. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991.

Lapsansky, Emma Jones. The Black Presence in Pennsylvania: "Making it Home." University Park, PA: Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1990.

Lapsansky, Emma Jones. Neighborhoods in Transition: William Penn's Dream and Urban Reality. New York: Garland Pub., 1994.

Lee, Jarena. Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of her
Call to Preach the Gospel. Philadelphia: self-published, 1849.

Lerner, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.

Levine, Bruce C: Half Slave and Half Free : The Roots of Civil War. Consulting editor, Eric Foner. New York : Hill and Wang, Noonday Press, 1992.

Lewis, Jan. "Review of The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker," Journal of American History, Dec 1992, p. 1137.

Litwack, Leon F.: Been In The Storm So Long; The Aftermath of Slavery. NewYork, Random House, 1979

Litwack, Leon F.: North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States 1790-1860 Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1961

Loewen,James W.: Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. New Press, 2005

_______ : Lies My Teacher Told Me. NY, New Press, 1995

Loewen,James W. & Sallis, Charles: Mississippi: Conflict & Change. Pantheon Books, 1974

McElroy, Guy C.: Facing History: the Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940. San Francisco, CA: Bedford Arts; Washington, D.C.: in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1990.

McManus, Edgar J. : A History of Negro Slavery in New York. Syracuse, Syracuse Univ. Press, 1966

McPherson, James M. The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and The Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton, Princeton U. Press, 1964

McPherson, James M.: The Negro's Civil War. NY, Pantheon Books, 1965

Miller, Lillian B., ed. The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1770-1870. Abbeville Press, in association with the Trust for Museum Exhibitions and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1997.

Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. New York: The Free Press, a division of MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1977.

Milligan, John D. "Slave Rebelliousness and the Florida Maroon," Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives, Spring 1974, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 4-18.

Mirsky, Jeannette and Allan Nevins. The World of Eli Whitney. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1952.

Mullane, Deirdre, ed. Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing. New York: Doubleday (Anchor Books), 1993.

Nash, Gary B. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Nash, Gary, et al. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Volume 1: To 1877, 3rd edition. HarperCollins College Publishers, 1994.

Northup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave, edited by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968. [narrative of a free black kidnipped into slavery]

Quarles, Benjamin: Allies For Freedom : Blacks and John Brown. New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.

Quarles, Benjamin: Black Abolitionists. New York, Oxford University Press, 1969

Quarles, Benjamin: The Negro in the Civil War ; new introduction by William S. McFeely. New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, 1989, [c1953].

Raboteau, Albert J. "Richard Allen and the African Church Movement," in Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century, ed. Leon Litwack and August Meier. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Rose, Willie Lee, ed. A Documentary History of Slavery in North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Scott, Julius S. The Common Wind: Currents of Afro-American Communication in the Era of the Haitian Revolution. Unpublished dissertation, Duke University, Department of History, 1986.

Smith, Alice R. Huger, ed. Charles Fraser, A Charleston Sketchbook, 1796-1806. Charleston:
Carolina Art Association, 1940.

Smith, Edward D. Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Rise of Black Churches in Eastern American Cities, 1740-1877, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.

Stanton, William. The Leopard's Spots: Scientific Attitudes Toward Race in America 1815-59. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960.

Staudenraus, P. J. The African Colonization Movement 1816-1865. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.

Sterling, Dorothy, ed. Turning the World Upside Down: The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, Held in New York City, May 9-12, 1837. New York: the Feminist Press At the City University of New York, 1987.

Sterling, Dorothy. We are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984.

Sutcliff, Robert. Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806. Philadelphia: B. & T. Kite, 1812.

Tadman, Michael. Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders and Slaves in the Old South. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Toll, Robert. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Tragle, Henry Irving. The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1971.

Voegeli, U. Jacque: Free But Not Equal: The Midwest And The Negro During the Civil War. Chicago, Univ. Chicago Press, 1967

Walker, David.: David Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles, Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the
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White, Shane: Stories of Freedom in Black New York. Cambridge, Harvard U. Press 2002

Wideman, John Edgar. Fever: Twelve Stories. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.

Wiggins, Rosalind Cobb, ed. Captain Paul Cuffe's Logs and Letters, 1808-1817: A Black Quaker's "Voice from within the Veil." Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1996.

Wilmore, Gayraud S. Black Religion and Black Radicalism. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1984.

Winch, Julie. "Philadelphia and the Other Underground Railroad," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 3, no. 1 (Jan. 1987), pp. 3-25. (about kidnapping of free African Americans)

Winch, Julie. Philadelphia's Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy, 1787-1848. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988,

Yellin, Jean Fagin. Women & Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. New Haven: Yale Univerity Press, 1989.

Zilversmit, Arthur. The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1967.