African American History and Genealogy Books

• General African American Books

  • Century of Negro Migration, In treating this movement of the Negroes, the writer does not presume to say the last word on the subject. The exodus of the Negroes from the South has just begun.

  • Clotelle or the Colored Heroine, Impassioned and voluptuous daughters of the two races, the unlawful product of the crime of human bondage.

  • Fugitive Blacksmith, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a slave in the State of Maryland.

  • Great Riots of New York 1712-1873, Including a Full and Complete Account of the Four Days' Draft Riot of 1863

  • History of Liberia, There are but few more interesting spots in Africa than the little corner of the west coast occupied by the Republic of Liberia.

  • Narrative of Lundsford Lane, Embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery

• Freedmen

  • Choctaw Freedmen and Oak Hill Industrial Academy, A brief historical sketch of the work and workers connected with the founding and development of Oak Hill Industrial Academy.

• Slaves

  • Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18, The authorship of the Bill is generally ascribed to James M. Mason, Senator from Virginia. Before proceeding to the principal object of this tract, it is proper to give a synopsis of the Act itself.

  • History of Slave Narratives, This collection of slave narratives had its beginning in the second year of the former Federal Writers' Project, 1936, when several state Writers' Projects, notably those of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, recorded interviews with ex-slaves residing in those states.

    • Arkansas Slave Narratives

    • Florida Slave Narratives

    • Georgia Slave Narratives

    • Kansas Slave Narratives

    • Kentucky Slave Narratives

    • Maryland Slave Narratives

    • Mississippi Slave Narratives

    • North Carolina Slave Narratives

    • Ohio Slave Narratives

    • Oklahoma Slave Narratives

• Military

  • Henry Ossian Flipper, Colored Cadet at West Point, Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy

  • History of the Negro Soldier in the Spanish American War, The Attention Of The United States was forcibly attracted to Cuba by the Virginius affair, which consisted in the wanton murder of fifty American sailors

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