African-American Books

On Commando

Dietlof Van Warmelo

This book was written in 1901, while its author was a prisoner at Ahmednagar. It was written in Dutch, and has been put into English by a young lady from what was the Orange Free State. The autho..

Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading

James T. Haley

Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading, A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.If, as ..

Culm Rock

Glance Gaylord

Culm rock was a wild place. You might search the coast for miles and not find another bit of nature so bare and rent and ragged as this. So fiercely had the storms driven over it, so wildly had the wi..

From Slave to College President - Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington

Godfrey Holden Pike

From Slave to College President: Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington is a biographical work of Godfrey Holden Pike...

Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina

F. Colburn Adams

Manuel Pereira is a biographical fiction work by Francis Colburn Adams was an American miscellaneous writer, formerly living in Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote under various pseudonyms.Introduct..

Black Ivory

R. M. Ballantyne

Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade it is not our heroes who are doing it. At the very first chapter there is a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer of..

Lady Luck

Hugh Wiley

Lady Luck is an African-American fiction work by Hugh Wiley, a psychologist, has studied change throughout his rich and varied experiences ranging from a labourer to co-founder and manager of a m..

Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton

Daniel Drayton

Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, For Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (For Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail Including A Narrative Of The Voyage And Capture Of The Schooner Pearl.Excerpts from..