BIOGRAPHIES
Birney, William. James G. Birney and His Times. (New York, 1890.) A sketch of an advocate of Negro uplift.
Bowen, Clarence W. Arthur and Lewis Tappan. A paper read at the fiftieth anniversary of the New York Anti-Slavery Society, at the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, October 2, 1883. An honorable mention of two friends of the Negro.
Drew, Benjamin. A North-side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the
Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by themselves, with an
Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper
Canada. (New York and Boston, 1856.)
Frothingham, O.B. Gerritt Smith: A Biography. (New York, 1878.)
Garrison, Francis and Wendell P. William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879. The
Story of his Life told by his Children. Four volumes. (Boston and New
York, 1894.) Includes a brief account of what he did for the colored
people.
Hammond, C.A. Gerritt Smith, The Story of a Noble Man's Life.
(Geneva, 1900.)
Johnson, Oliver. William Lloyd Garrison and his Times. (Boston, 1880. New edition, revised and enlarged, Boston, 1881.)
Mott, A. Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color; with a Selection of Pieces of Poetry. (New York, 1826.) Some of these sketches show how ambitious Negroes succeeded in spite of opposition.
Simmons, W.J. Men of Mark; Eminent, Progressive, and Rising, with an
Introductory Sketch of the Author by Reverend Henry M. Turner.
(Cleveland, Ohio, 1891.) Accounts for the adverse circumstances under
which many antebellum Negroes made progress.