African-American Books

An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

Lydia Maria Child

An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans is an anti-slavery work by Lydia Maria Francis Child, was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights a..

The Future of the Colored Race in America

William Aikman

The Future of the Colored Race in America is a short work on slavery written by William Aikman, Pastor of the Hanover Street Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Delaware.Excerpts:In whatever way the..

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Annie L. Burton

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days is a personal memoirs of Annie L. Burton, a slave during the US civil war period. This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton,..

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot; Or, Plantation Child-Life

Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

The stories, plantation games, and Hymns are just as I heard them in my childhood. I have learned that Mr. Harris, in Uncle Remus, has already given the "Tar Baby"; but I have not seen his book, and, ..

The Hidden Children

Robert W. Chambers

No undue liberties with history have been attempted in this romance. Few characters in the story are purely imaginary. Doubtless the fastidious reader will distinguish these intruders at a glance, and..

Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter

F. Colburn Adams

IN presenting this work to the public, we are fully conscious of the grave charges of misrepresenting society, and misconstruing facts, which will be made by our friends of the South, and its very pec..

Service by the Educated Negro

Roscoe Conkling Bruce

Teaching is an art inseparable from the personality of the teacher,—an art in which a mature person seeks by personal influence to help immature persons build their characters soundly. Teaching abilit..

The Black Man - His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements

William Wells Brown

The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements the biographical works of African-American written by William Wells Brown. The second class are those who are ignorant of the character..