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(Note: Not all works are by African-American authors)

Barrows, Samuel J.

  What the Southern Negro is Doing for Himself (1891)
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Bibb, Henry

  Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, and American slave, written by himself. (1850)
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Boughton, Willis, 1854-1942

  "The Negro's Place in History" (1896)
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Brawley, Benjamin

  The Negro in American Fiction (1916)
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  The Negro Genius (1915)
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Chalmers, H. H.

  The Effects of Negro Suffrage (1881)
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Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932

  The Free Colored People of North Carolina (1902)
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  The Partners (1901)
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Craft, William

  Running a thousand miles for freedom (1860)
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Dodge, David

  "The Free Negroes of North Carolina" (1886)
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Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895

  "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" (1867)
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  "The Color Line" (1881)
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  "My Escape From Slavery" (1881)
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  "The Future of the Colored Race" (1886)
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  "The Negro Exodus from the Gulf States" (1867)
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  "The Heroic Slave" (1851, 1852, or 1853)
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  "My Bondage and My Freedom. With an Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith" (1855)
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  "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" (1845)
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  "Reconstruction" (1866)
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Dowd, Jerome

  "Paths of Hope for the Negro:Practical Suggestions of a Southerner" (1900)
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Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt

  "The Freedmen's Bureau" (1901)
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  "A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South"
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  "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903)
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  "Strivings of the Negro People" (1897)
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  "Of the Training of Black Men" (1902)
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Emerson, Nancy

  "Augusta County: Diary of Nancy Emerson" (1862-1864)
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Ewing, Quincy

  "The Heart of the Race Problem" (1909)
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Griggs, Sutton Elbert, 1872-1933

  "Friction Between the Races: Causes and Cure" (1930)
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  "Imperium In Imperio" (1899)
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Higginson,Thomas Wentworth

  "Pay of Colored Troops" (1864 December 8)
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  "Negro Spirituals"
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Romeyn, Henry

  "'Little Africa': The Last Slave Cargo Landed in the United States" (1897)
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Runnion, James B.

  "The Negro Exodus" (1879)
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

  "The Education of Freedmen, Part 2" (1879)
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  "Uncle Tom's Cabin,or Life Among the Lowly" (1852)
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  "The Christian Slave: A Drama" (1855)
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  "The Education of Freedmen, Part 1" (1879)
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  "The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1853)
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  "Sojouner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl" (1863)
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Trux, J.J.

  "Negro Minstrelsy -- Ancient and Modern" (1855)
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

  "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884)
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Villard, Oswald Garrison

  "The Negro in the Regular Army" (1903)
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Warner, Charles Dudley

  "The Story of Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1896)
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Washington, Booker T.

  "The Awakening of the Negro" (1896)
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  "The Case of the Negro" (1899)
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  "Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance?" (1912)
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  "The Fruits of Industrial Training" (1903)
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  "Heroes in Black Skins" (1903)
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  "Negro Self-Help" (1905)
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  "Negro Progress in Virginia" (January 1914)
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  "The Religious Life of the Negro" (1905)
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  "Signs of Progress among the Negroes" (1900)
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  "Up From Slavery: An Autobiography"
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  "Teamwork" (1915)
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  "Tuskegee: A Retrospect and Prospect" (1906)
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Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)

  "An Elegy, sacred to the memory of the great divine, the Reverend and learned Dr. Samuel Cooper, who departed this life December 29, 1783, aetatis 59.by Phillis Peters" (1784)
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  "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" (1772)
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Wilson, Harriet E.

  "Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black" (1859)
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Wood, J. Taylor.

  "The Capture of a Slaver" (1900)
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