Classicly Collection of Books

The American Prejudice Against Color

William G. Allen

Excerpts from the author William G. Allen's introduction of the book The American Prejudice Against Color.Many persons having suggested that it would greatly subserve the Anti-slavery Cause in th..

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was fi..

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Radcliffe

The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in four volumes on 8 May 1794 by G. G. and J. Robinson of London. The firm paid her £500 for the manuscript. The contract is housed at the Uni..

A Black Adonis

Linn Boyd Porter

A Black Adonis is a novel by Linn Boyd Porter. Excerpts from the preface of the book:I do not know how better to use the space that the printer always leaves me in this part of the book than to r..

Aunt Phillis's Cabin

Mary H. Eastman

Aunt Phillis's Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. It was published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Ph..

Black Rebellion

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Black Rebellion by Thomas Wentworth Higginson is a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who success..

Clotel, or The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Brown, who ..

Education of the Negro

Charles Dudley Warner

Excerpts from the book Education of the Negro written by Charles Dudley Warner.At the close of the war for the Union about five millions of negroes were added to the citizenship of the Unite..