Brown, William Wells: Clotel, or The President's Daughter (a narrative of slave life in the United States). London, 1853.
The Escape; or A Leap for Freedom, a Drama in five acts. Boston, 1858.
The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements. New York, 1863.
The Rising Son; or The Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race. Boston, 1874.
To Thomas J. Gantt, Esq. (Broadside), Charleston, 1861.
Douglass, William: Annals of St. Thomas's First African Church. Philadelphia, 1862.
Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored Men, held in the city of Syracuse, N.Y., October 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1864, with the Bill of Wrongs and Rights and the Address to the American People. Boston, 1864.
The Budget, containing the Annual Reports of the General Officers of the African M.E. Church of the United States of America, edited by Benjamin W. Arnett. Xenia, O., 1881. Same for later years.
Simms, James M.: The First Colored Baptist Church in North America. Printed by J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1888.
Upton, William H.: Negro Masonry, being a Critical Examination of objections to the legitimacy of the Masonry existing among the Negroes of America. Cambridge, 1899; second edition, 1902.
Brooks, Charles H.: The Official History and Manual of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. Philadelphia, 1902.
Cromwell, John W.: The Early Convention Movement. Occasional Paper No. 9 of American Negro Academy, Washington, D.C., 1904.