MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
Adams, Alice Dana. The Neglected Period of Anti-Slavery in America. Radcliffe College Monographs No. 14._ (Boston and London, 1908) Contains some valuable facts about the Negroes during the first three decades of the nineteenth century.
Agricola (pseudonym). An Impartial View of the Real State of the Black
Population in the United States. (Philadelphia, 1824.)
Alexander, A. A History of Colonisation on the Western Continent of
Africa. (Philadelphia, 1846.)
Ames, Mary. From a New England Woman's Diary in 1865, (Springfield, 1906.)
An Address to the People of North Carolina on the Evils of Slavery, by the Friends of Liberty and Equality, 1830. (Greensborough, 1830.)
An Address to the Presbyterians of Kentucky proposing a Plan for the Instruction and Emancipation of their Slaves by a Committee of the Synod of Kentucky. (Newburyport, 1836.)
Baldwin, Ebenezer. Observations on the Physical and Moral Qualities of our Colored Population with Remarks on the Subject of Emancipation and Colonization. (New Haven, 1834.)
Bassett, J. S. Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North
Carolina. (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and
Political Science. Fourteenth Series, iv-v. Baltimore, 1896.)
———Slavery in the State of North Carolina. (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Series XVII., Nos. 7-8. Baltimore, 1899.)
———Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina. (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Series XVI., No. 6. Baltimore, 1898.)
Benezet, Anthony. A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies in a
Short Representation of the calamitous State of the enslaved Negro in the
British Dominions. (Philadelphia, 1784.)
———The Case of our Fellow-Creatures, the oppressed Africans, respectfully recommended to the serious Consideration of the Legislature of Great Britain, by the People called Quakers. (London, 1783.)
———Observations on the enslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes; with some Advice thereon, extracted from the Epistle of the Yearly-Meeting of the People called Quakers, held at London in the Year 1748. (Germantown, 1760.)
———The Potent Enemies of America laid open: being some Account of the baneful Effects attending the Use of distilled spirituous Liquors, and the Slavery of the Negroes. (Philadelphia.)
———A Short Account of that Part of Africa, inhabited by the Negroes. With respect to the Fertility of the Country; the good Disposition of many of the Natives, and the Manner by which the Slave Trade is carried on. (Philadelphia, 1792)
———Short Observations on Slavery, introductory to Some Extracts from the Writings of the Abbé Raynal, on the Important Subject.
———Some Historical Account of Guinea, its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of its Inhabitants. With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, its Nature and Lamentable Effects. (London, 1788.)
Birney, James G. The American Churches, the Bulwarks of American
Slavery, by an American. (Newburyport, 1842.)
Birney, William. James G. Birney and his Times. The Genesis of the
Republican Party, with Some Account of the Abolition Movements in the
South before 1828. (New York, 1890.)
Brackett, Jeffery B. The Negro in Maryland. A Study of the Institution of Slavery. (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1889.)
Brannagan, Thomas. A Preliminary Essay on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa, Consisting of Animadversions on the Impolicy and Barbarity of the Deleterious Commerce and Subsequent Slavery of the Human Species. (Philadelphia: Printed for the Author by John W. Scott, 1804.)
Brannagan, T. Serious Remonstrances Addressed to the Citizens of the
Northern States and their Representatives, being an Appeal to their
Natural Feelings and Common Sense; Consisting of Speculations and
Animadversions, on the Recent Revival of the Slave Trade in the American
Republic. (Philadelphia, 1805.)
Campbell, J. V. Political History of Michigan. (Detroit, 1876.)
Code Noir ou Recueil d'edits, declarations et arrêts concernant la Discipline et le commerce des esclaves Nègres des isles francaises de l'Amérique (in Recueils de réglemens, edits, declarations et arrêts, concernant le commerce, l'administration de la justice et la police des colonies francaises de l'Amérique, et les engages avec le Code Noir, et l'addition audit code). (Paris, 1745.)
Coffin, Joshua. An Account of Some of the principal Slave Insurrections and others which have occurred or been attempted in the United States and elsewhere during the last two Centuries. With various Remarks. Collected from various Sources. (New York, 1860.)
Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law. Edited by the faculty of political science. The useful volumes of this series for this field are:
W.L. Fleming's Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama, 1905.
W.W. Davis's The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida, 1913.
Clara Mildred Thompson's Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social,
Political, 1915.
J.G. de R. Hamilton's Reconstruction in North Carolina, 1914.
C.W. Ramsdell. Reconstruction in Texas, 1910.
Connecticut, Public Acts passed by the General Assembly of.
Cromwell, J.W. The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African Descent. (Washington, 1914.)
Davidson, A., and Stowe, B. A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1873. (Springfield, 1874.) It embraces the physical features of the country, its early explorations, aboriginal inhabitants, the French and British occupation, the conquest of Virginia, territorial condition and subsequent events.
Delany, M.R. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the
Colored People of the United States: politically considered.
(Philadelphia, 1852.)
DuBois, W.E.B. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton. (Philadelphia, 1899.)
———Atlanta University Publications, The Negro Common School.
(Atlanta, 1901.)
———The Negro Church. (Atlanta, 1903.)
———and Dill, A.G. The College-Bred Negro American. (Atlanta, 1910.)
———The Negro American Artisan. (Atlanta, 1912.)
De Toqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel De. Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. Four volumes. (London, 1835, 1840.)
Eaton, John. Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen: reminiscences of the
Civil War with special reference to the work for the Contrabands, and the
Freedmen of the Mississippi Valley. (New York, 1907.)
Epstein. The Negro Migrant in Pittsburgh. (Pittsburgh, 1917.)
Exposition of the Object and Plan of the American Union for the Belief and Improvement of the Colored Race. (Boston, 1835.)
Fee, John G. Anti-Slavery Manual. (Maysville, 1848.)
Fertig, James Walter. The Secession and Reconstruction of
Tennessee. (Chicago, 1898.)
Frost, W.G. "Appalachian America." (In vol. i of The Americana.)
(New York, 1912.)
Garnett, H.H. The Past and Present Condition and the Destiny of the
Colored Race. (Troy, 1848.)
Greely, Horace. The American Conflict. A history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-64, its causes, incidents and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift of progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for its union. (Chicago, 1864.)
Hammond, M.B. The Cotton Industry: an Essay in American Economic
History. It deals with the cotton culture and the cotton Trade. (New
York, 1897.)
Hart, A.B. The Southern South. (New York, 1906.)
Henson, Josiah. The Life of Josiah Henson. (Boston, 1849.)
Hershaw, L.M. Peonage in the United States. This is one of the
American Negro Academy Papers. (Washington, 1912.)
Hickok, Charles Thomas. The Negro in Ohio, 1802-1870. (Cleveland, 1896.)
Hodgkin, Thomas A. Inquiry into the Merits of the American Colonization
Society and Reply to the Charges brought against it with an Account of the
British African Colonization Society. (London, 1833.)
Howe, Samuel G. The Refugees from Slavery in Canada West. Report to the
Freedmen's Inquiry Committee. (Boston, 1864.)
Hutchins, Thomas. An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida, comprehending the river Mississippi with its principal Branches and Settlements and the Rivers Pearl and Pescagoula. (Philadelphia, 1784.)
Illinois, Laws of, passed by the General Assembly of.
Indiana, Laws passed by the State of.
Jay, John. _The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay. First
Chief Justice of the United States and President of the Continental
Congress, Member of the Commission to negotiate the Treaty of
Independence, Envoy to Great Britain, Governor of New York, etc.,
1782-1793. (New York and London, 1801.) Edited by Henry P. Johnson,
Professor of History in the College of the City of New York.
Jay, William. An Inquiry into the Character and Tendencies of the American Colonisation and American Anti-Slavery Societies. Second edition. (New York, 1835.)
Jefferson, Thomas. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition.
Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary Mannual, Official Papers,
Messages and Addresses, and other writings Official and Private, etc.
(Washington, 1903.)
Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. H.B. Adams, Editor. (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press.) Among the useful volumes of this series are: J.R. Ficklen's History of Reconstruction in Louisiana, 1910.
H.J. Eckenrode's The Political History of Virginia during
Reconstruction, 1904.
Langston, John M. From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capital; or, The First and Only Negro Representative in Congress from The Old Dominion. (Hartford, 1894.)
Locke, M.S. Anti-Slavery in America from the Introduction of African
Slaves to the Prohibition of the Slave Trade, 1619-1808. Radcliffe
College Monographs, No. ii. (Boston, 1901.) A valuable work.
Lynch, John R. The Facts of Reconstruction. (New York, 1913.)
Madison, James. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Published by Order of Congress. Four volumes. (Philadelphia, 1865.)
May, S.J. Some Recollections of our Anti-Slavery Conflict.
Monroe, James. The Writings of James Monroe, including a Collection of his public and private Papers and Correspondence now for the first time printed. Edited by S. M. Hamilton. (Boston, 1900.)
Moore, George H. Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts.
(New York, 1866.)
Needles, Edward. Ten Years' Progress or a Comparison of the State and Condition of the Colored People in the City of and County of Philadelphia from 1837 to 1847. (Philadelphia, 1849.)
New Jersey, Acts of the General Assembly of.
Ohio, Laws of the General Assembly of.
Ovington, M.W. Half-a-Man. (New York, 1911.) Treats of the Negro in the State of New York. A few pages are devoted to the progress of the colored people.
Parrish, John. Remarks on the Slavery of the Black People; Addressed to the Citizens of the United States, particularly to those who are in legislative or executive Stations, particularly in the General or State Governments; and also to such Individuals as hold them in Bondage. (Philadelphia, 1806.)
Pearson, E.W. Letters from Port Royal, written at the Time of the Civil
War. (Boston, 1916.)
Pearson, C.C. The Readjuster Movement in Virginia. (New Haven, 1917.)
Pennsylvania, Laws of the General Assembly of the State of.
Pierce, E.L. The Freedmen of Port Royal, South Carolina, Official
Reports. (New York, 1863.)
Pike, James S. The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro
Government. (New York, 1874.)
Pittman, Philip. The Present State of European Settlements on the Mississippi with a geographic description of that river. (London, 1770.)
Quillen, Frank U. The Color Line in Ohio. A History of Race
Prejudice in a typical northern State. (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1913.)
Reynolds, J.S. Reconstruction in South Carolina. (Columbia, 1905.)
Rhode Island, Acts and Resolves of.
Rice, David. Slavery inconsistent with Justice and Good Policy: proved by a Speech delivered in the Convention held at Danville, Kentucky. (Philadelphia, 1792, and London, 1793.)
Scherer, J.A.B. Cotton as a World Power. (New York, 1916.) This is a study in the economic interpretation of History. The contents of this book are a revision of a series of lectures at Oxford and Cambridge universities in the Spring of 1914 with the caption on Economic Causes in the American Civil War.
Siebert, Wilbur H. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to
Freedom, by W.H. Siebert, Associate Professor of History in the Ohio
State University, with an Introduction by A.B. Hart. (New York, 1898.)
Starr, Frederick. What shall be done with the people of color in the
United States? (Albany, 1862.) A discourse delivered in the First
Presbyterian Church of Penn Yan, New York, November 2, 1862.
Still, William. The Underground Railroad. (Philadelphia, 1872.) This is a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters and the like, giving the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the author.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1619-1791. The Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts with English Translations and Notes illustrated by Portraits, Maps, and Facsimiles. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. (Cleveland, 1896.)
Thompson, George. Speech at the Meeting for the Extension of Negro
Apprenticeship. (London, 1838.)
———The Free Church Alliance with Manstealers. Send back the Money. Great Anti-Slavery Meeting in the City Hall, Glasgow, containing the Speeches delivered by Messrs. Wright, Douglass, and Buffum from America, and by George Thompson of London, with a Summary Account of a Series of Meetings held in Edinburgh by the above named Gentlemen. (Glasgow, 1846.)
Torrey, Jesse, Jr. A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United
States with Reflections on the Practicability of restoring the Moral
Rights of the Slave, without impairing the legal Privileges of the
Possessor, and a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Color,
including Memoirs of Facts on the Interior Traffic in Slaves and on
Kidnapping, Illustrated with Engravings by Jesse Torrey, Jr., Physician,
Author of a Series of Essays on Morals and the Diffusion of Knowledge.
(Philadelphia, 1817.)
———American Internal Slave Trade; with Reflections on the project for forming a Colony of Blacks in Africa. (London, 1822.)
Turner, E.R. The Negro in Pennsylvania. (Washington, 1911.)
Tyrannical Libertymen: a Discourse upon Negro Slavery in the United States, composed at ——— in New Hampshire: on the Late Federal Thanksgiving Day. (Hanover, N. H., 1795.)
Walker, David. Walker's Appeal in Four Articles, together with a Preamble to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in particular and very expressly to those of the United States of America, Written in Boston, State of Massachusetts, September 28, 1829. Second edition. (Boston, 1830.) Walker was a Negro who hoped to arouse his race to self-assertion.
Ward, Charles. Contrabands. (Salem, 1866.) This suggests an apprenticeship, under the auspices of the government, to build the Pacific Railroad.
Washington, B.T. The Story of the Negro. Two volumes. (New York, 1909.)
Washington, George. The Writings of George Washington, being his Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original Manuscripts with the Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, by Jared Sparks. (Boston, 1835.)
Weeks, Stephen B. Southern Quakers and Slavery. A Study in
Institutional History. (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1896.)
———The Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the South; with Unpublished Letters from John Stuart Mill and Mrs. Stowe. (Southern History Association Publications, Volume ii, No. 2, Washington, D.C., April, 1898.)
Williams, G.W. A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the
Rebellion, 1861-1865, preceded by a Review of the military Services of
Negroes in ancient and modern Times. (New York, 1888.)
———History of the Negro Race in the United States from 1619-1880. Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens: together with a preliminary Consideration of the Unity of the Human Family, an historical Sketch of Africa and an Account of the Negro Governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia. (New York, 1883.)
Woodson, C.G. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861. (New York
and London, 1915.) This is a history of the Education of the Colored
People of the United States from the beginning of slavery to the Civil
War.
Woolman, John. The Works of John Woolman. In two Parts, Part I: A
Journal of the Life, Gospel-Labors, and Christian Experiences of that
faithful Minister of Christ, John Woolman, late of Mount Holly in the
Province of New Jersey. (London, 1775.)
———Same, Part Second. Containing his last Epistle and other Writings. (London, 1775.)
———Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes. Recommended to the Professors of Christianity of every Denomination. (Philadelphia, 1754.)
———Considerations on Keeping Negroes; Recommended to the Professors of Christianity of every Denomination. Part the Second. (Philadelphia, 1762.)
Wright, R.R., Jr. The Negro in Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia, 1912.)