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African American Department Collection and State Library Resources

The Afro-American Rare Book Collection

is a collection of 152 books published on microfiche in 1977, selected from the Western States Black Research Center in Los Angeles by Mayme Clayton. This list is organized alphabetically by the author's last name, and then alphabetically by title. Any of these titles may be used in the African American Department.

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Anti-Slavery Record. Vol. II, No. 2.
New York: R. G. Williams, 1836.
Aunt Sally, or Cross the Way of Freedom.
Cincinnati, OH: American Reform Tract & Book Society, 1860.
Clarinda: a Pious Woman.
Philadelphia: Tract Association of Friends, 1886.
The Missionary Pioneer, or a Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart.
New York: John Mitchell, 1827.
The Thompson Street Poker Club.
New York: White & Allen, 1888.
George Ade
Pink Marsh - a Story of the Streets and Town.
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897.
William T. Alexander
History of the Colored Race in America.
Kansas City, MO: Palmetto Publishing Co., 1887.
D. Anderson
Belle Scott: or the Crisis of Freedom.
Boston: W. M. Heath, 1856.
Benjamin W. Arnett
The Souvenir.
Philadelphia: Publishing House of the A.M.E. Church, 1894.
Robert Arnold
Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond.
Norfolk, VA: Green, Burke & Gregory, Printers, 1888.
J. Asher
Incidents on the Life of Rev. J. Asher.
London: Charles Gilpin, 1850.
John H. Aughey
The Capture and Execution of John Brown.
Philadelphia: William S. & Alfred Martien, 1863.
Elijah Avey
The Capture and Execution of John Brown.
Elgin, IL: Brethern Publishing House, 1906.
James Battle Avirett
The Old Plantation.
n.p., n.d.
Barbarossa
The Lost Principle; or the Sectional Equilibrium.
Richmond, VA: James Wodehouse & co., 1860.
Henry W. Bellows
Historical Sketch of the Union League Club of New York.
New York: Club House, 1879.
Theo Bond and Dan A. Rudd
From Slavery to Wealth, the Life of Scott Bond.
Madison, AR: Journal Printing Co., 1917.
William S. Braddan
Under Three Banners.
Nashville, TN: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1940.
Helen K. Branson
Let there Be Life.
Pasadena, CA: M.S. Sen, 1947.
W. Sampson Brooks
Footprints of a Black Man - Holy Land.
St. Louis, MO: Eden Publishing House, 1915.
Hallie Q. Brown
Pen Pictures of Pioneers of Wilberforce.
Xenia, OH: Aldine Publishing Co., 1937.
Walter Browning
The Slaves Protection.
Cincinnati, OH: American Reform Tract & Book Society, 1859.
W. P. Burrell and D. E. Johnson
Twenty-Five Years History of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformer, 1881-1905.
Richmond, VA:, n.p., 1909.
Hezekia Butterworth
A Zigzag Journey in the Sunny South.
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1887.
Israel Campbell
Bond and Free, or Yearnings for Fredom.
Philadelphia: Israel Campbell, 1861.
Thomas M. Campbell
The Movable School Goes to the Negro Farmer.
Tuskegee, AL: Tuskegee, AL, 1936.

Herschel V. Cashin,
Charles Alexander,
Horace W. Bivins,
and Arthur M. Brown

Under Fire with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry.
Chicago: American Publishing House, 1902.
Gumbo Chaff
Christy Minstrels - The Ethiopian Glee Book.
Boston: Elias Howe, 1848.
William E. Channing
Slavery.
Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1835
Charles W. Chesnutt
The Wife of His Youth.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899.
Lewis Clarke and Milton Clarke
Narratives of the Suffering of Lewis and Milton Clarke.
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1846.
Levi Coffin
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin.
Cincinnati, OH, 1879.
Lucretia H. Newman Coleman
Poor Ben: A Story of Real Life.
Nashville, TN: Publishing House of AME Sunday School Union, 1890.
Nellie Victoria Conner
Essence of Good Perfume.
Burbank, CA: Ivan Beach, Jr., 1940.
James D. Corrothers
The Black Cat Club.
London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902.
William Cowper
The Negro's Complaint: a Poem. To Which is Added Pity for Poor Africans.
London: Harvey & Darton, 1826.
W. H. Crogman and J. W. Gibson
The Colored American.
Naperville, IL: J. L. Nichols & Co., 1912.
W. H. Crogman and J. L. Nichols
Progress of a Race, or, the Remarkable Advancement of the American Negro.
Naperville, IL: J. L. Nichols & Co., 1920.
Samuel Crothers
The Gospel of the Jubilee.
Hamilton, OH: I. M. Walters., 1837.
Arthur T. Cunynghame
My Command in South Africa, 1874-1878.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1879.
Wendell P. Dabney
Cincinnati's Colored Citizens.
Cincinnati, OH: Dabney Publishing Co., 1926.
Edith Smith Davis
Whether White or Black, a Man.
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1898.
Moses Dickson
A Manual of the Knights of Tabor and the Daughters of the Tabernacle.
St. Louis, MO: Press of G. I. Jones & Co., 1879.
Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
Hartford, CT: Park Publishing Co., 1882.
My Bondage and My Freedom.
New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.
Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845.
Frederick E. Drinker
Booker T. Washington - Master Mind of a Child of Slavery.
n.p., 1915.
Alice Moore Dunbar
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence.
New York: Bookery Publishing Co., 1914
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Candle-Lightin' Time.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1901.
Howdy Honey Howdy.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1905.
Joggin' Erlong.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1906.
Li'l' Gal.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1904.
Lyrics of Lowly Life.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1898.
Majors and Minors.
Toledo, OH: Hadley & Hadley, 1895.
Poems of Cabin and Field.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1896.
The Uncalled.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1898.
Luis F. Emilio
History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865.
Boston: Boston Book Co., 1891.
Merl R. Eppse
The Negro, Too, In American History.
Chicago: National Educaitonal Publishing Co., 1938.
George Fitzhugh
Cannibals All! or Slaves Without Masters.
Richmond, VA: A. Morris, 1857.
H. A. Forde
Black and White - Mission Stories.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1908.
Mary Weston Fordham
Magnolia Leaves.
Charleston, SC: Presses of Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co., 1897.
Friends of Freedom
The Liberty Bell.
Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1845.
James Anthony Froude
The English in the West Indies.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888.
Mary Louis Gaines
I Heah De De Voices Callin'.
Atlanta, GA: Byrd Printing Co., 1916.
W. J. Gaines
The Negro and the White Man.
Philadelphia: A.M.E. Publishing House, 1897.
Brother Gardner and M. Quad
Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club.
Chicago: Donohue Henneberry & Co., 1890.
William Lloyd Garrison
Sonnets and Other Poems.
Boston: Oliver Johnson, 1843.
J. W. Gibson and W. H Crogman
The Colored American.
Naperville, IL: J. L. Nichols & Co., 1912.
Joshua R. Giddings
Speeches in Congress.
Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853.
Martha S. Gielow
Mammy's Reminiscences and Other Sketches.
New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1898.
Old Plantation Days.
New York: R. H. Russell, 1902.
Effie Graham
The "Passin'-On" Party.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1912.
Stephen Graham
Children of the Slaves.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1920.
Sutton E. Griggs
Guide to Racial Greatness, or, the Science of Collective Efficiency.
Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1923.
Wisdom's Call.
Nashville, TN: Orion Publishing Co., 1911.
Archibald Grimke
The Life of Charles Sumner.
London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1892.
J. T. Haley
Afro-American Encyclopedia, or the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race.
Nashville, TN: Haley and Florida, 1896.
L. H. Hammond
In Black and White (Interpretation of Southern Life).
New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1914.
James A. Handy
Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History.
Philadelphia: AME Book Concern, n.d.
Frances E. W. Harper
Iola LeRoy or Shadows Uplifted.
Philadelphia: Garrigues Brothers, 1893.
Atticus G. Haygood
Pleas for Progress.
Cincinnati, OH: Cranston & Stowe, 1889.
Charles Fred Heartman
Phyllis Wheatley Poems and Letters.
New York: Charles Heartman, 1863.
Josiah Henson
Father Henson's Story.
Cleveland, OH: John P. Jewett & Co., 1858.
Chester D. Heywood
Negro Combat Troops in the World War: the Story of the 371st Infantry.
Worcester, MA: Commonwealth Press, 1928.
Thomas W. Higginson
Army Life in a Black Regiment.
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870.
Frederic May Holland
Frederick Douglass - the Colored Orator.
New York: FUnk & Wagnalls, 1891.
John James Holm
Holm's Race Assimilation or the Fading Leopard's Spots.
Naperville, IL: J. L. Nichols & Co., 1910.
John Henry Hopkins
View of Slavery.
W. I. Pooley & Co., 1864.
William Hosmer
Slavery and the Church.
Auburn, NY: William J. Moses, 1853.
Victor Hugo
John Brown.
Alwil Shop, 1902.
L. D. Ingersoll
The Life of Horace Greeley.
Philadelphia: John E. Potter & Co., 1874.
J. H. Ingraham
The Sunny South; or the Southerner at Home.
Philadelphia: G. G. Evans, 1860.
William Jay
An Inquiry into the Characters and Tendency of the American Colonization and American Anti-Slavery Societies.
New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1835.
D.E. Johnson and W. P. Burrell
Twenty-Five Years History of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformer, 1881-1905.
Richmond, VA: n.p., 1909.
Edward A. Johnson
A School History of the Negro Race in Ameica from 1619 to 1890.
Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1984.
H. U. Johnson
From Dixie to Canada.
Orwell, OH: H. U. Johnson, Publisher, 1896.
Charles C. Jones
Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1888.
George W. Julian
Speeches on Political Questions.
New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1872.
John P. Kennedy
Swallow Barn; or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion.
New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1866.
Edmund Kirke
Among the Pines, or South in Secession Time.
New York: J. R. Gilmore, 1862.
M. L. Latta
The History of My Life and Work.
Raleigh, SC: Rev. M. L. Latta, Publisher, 1903.
Hannah F. S. Lee
Memoirs of Pierre Toussaint.
Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co., 1854.
Mary A. Livermore
The Story of My Life.
Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1897.
J. W. Loguen
The Rev. J. W. Loguen as a Slave and as a Freeman.
Syracuse, NY: J.G.K. Truair & Co., 1859.
J. H. Magee
The Night of Affliction and Morning of Recovery.
Cincinnati, OH: Rev. J.H. Magee, Publisher, 1873.
Elijah P. Marrs
Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs.
Louisville, KY: Bradley & Gilbert Co., 1885.
J. B. T. Marsh
The Story of the Jubilee Singers.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., n.d.
Jorge O. Masa
The Angel in Ebony, or the Life and Message of Sammy Morris.
Upland, IN: Taylor University Press, 1928.
Perry Honce McGee
My Valued Ruby - Poems.
1920.
Kelly Miller
The World War for Human Rights.
1919.
James Monroe
Oberline Thursday Lectures, Addresses and Essays.
Oberlin, OH: Edward J. Goodrich, Publisher, 1897.
T. J. Morgan
The Negro In America and the Ideal American Republic.
Philadelphia: Ameican Baptist Publication Society, 1898.
Oliver T. Morton
The Southern Empire with Other Papers.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1892.
A. Mott
Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color.
New York: M. Day, Publishers, n.d.
J. L. Nichols and W. H. Crogman
Progress of a Race, or the Remarkable Advancement of the American Negro.
Naperville, IL: J.L. Nichols Co., 1920.
Theodore Parker
The Dangers of Slavery.
Boston: Directors of the Old South Work, Publishers, 1854.
Lucy E. Parsons
Life of Albert R. Parsons With Brief History of the Labor Movement in America.
Chicago: Lucy E. Parsons, Publisher, 1903.
Caroline H. Pemberton
Stephen the Black.
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1899.
I. Garland Penn
The Afro-American Press and Its Editors.
Springfield, MA: Wiley & Co., 1891.
William Pickering
The Conquerors of the New World and Their Bondsmen, Vol. 1.
London: William Pickering, 1848
The Conquerors of the New World and Their Bondsmen, Vol. 2.
London: William Pickering, 1852
Hamilton W. Pierson
In the Brush; or, Old-Time Social, Political, and Religious Life in the Southwest.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1881.
C. H. Proctor
The Life of James Williams, Better Known as Professor Jim.
Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1873.
Henry Hugh Proctor
Between Black and White - Autobiographical Sketches.
Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1925.
M. Quad and Brother Gardner
Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club.
Chicago: Donohue Henneberry & Co., 1890.
J. Thornton Randolph
The Cabin and the Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters.
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, 1852.
James Redpath
The Public Life of Captain John Brown.
Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860.
G. F. Richings 
  Evidence of Progress Among Colored People.
Philadelphia: George S. Ferguson Co., 1897.
Romney 
  Slave List of Rt. Honorable Lord Romney.
1790. 
Moses Roper  
  Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper From American Slavery.
Berwick-Upon-Tweed, 1846. 
Dan A. Rudd and Theo Bond
  From Slavery to Wealth, the Life of Scott Bond.
Madison, AR: Journal Printing Co., 1917.
R. C. Smedley  
  History of the Underground Railroad.
Lancaster, PA: Office of the Journal, 1883. 
James L. Smith  
  Autobiography of James L. Smith.
Norwich, CT: Press of the Bulletin Co., 1881. 
Charles Stearns  
  The Black Man of the South and the Rebels.
New York: American News Co., 1872. 
Charles Emery Stevens
  Anthony Burns, A History.
Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1856. 
Austin Steward  
  Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freedman.
Rochester, NY: William Alling, Publisher, 1857. 
A. J. Stokes  
  Select Sermons
Jacob Stroyer  
  My Life in the South.
Salem, MA: Newcom and Gauss, Publishers, 1898. 
W. Allison Sweeney  
  The History of the American Negro in the Great World War.
1919. 
James A. Thome  
  The Future of the Freed People.
Cincinnati, OH: American Reform Tract & Book Society, 1863. 
James M. Trotter  
  Music and Some Highly Musical People.
Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers, 1883. 
Sojourner Truth  
  Narrative of the Life of Sojourner Truth.
Boston, 1875. 
Robert L. Waring  
  As We See It.
Washington, D.C.: C. F. Sudwarth, 1910. 
Booker T. Washington  
Future of the American Negro.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1899.
A New Negro For a New Century.
Chicago: American Publishing House, n.d.
The Story of My Life and Work.
Naperville, IL: J.L. Nichols & Co., 1901.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902. 
State of Washington  
  Who's Who in Religious, Fraternal, Social, Civic, and Commercial Life on the Pacific Coast.
Seattle: Searchlight Publishing Co., 1926.
Howard Weeden  
Bandanna Ballads.
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899.
  Songs of the Old South.
New York: Doubleday & Co., 1900. 
Albery A. Whitman  
  The Rape of Florida.
St. Louis, MO: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1884. 
John G. Whittier
  Voices of Freedom.
Philadelphia: Thomas S. Cavender, 1846. 
George W. Williams  
  History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, Vol. 1 - 1619 - 1800.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Son, 1883.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, Vol. 2 - 1800 - 1880.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Son, 1883.
Joseph T. Wilson  
  Black Phalanx (History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States) 1775-1812.
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1888. 
Norman B. Wood
  The White Side of a Black Subject.
Chicago: American Publishing House, 1897. 
Fanny D'Arusmont Wright
  Views of Society and Manners in America: A Series of Letters During 1818-19-20.
New York: E. Bliss, E. White, Publishers, 1821. 
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