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Three who dared : Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner : champions of antebellum Black education / Philip S. Foner and Josephine F. Pacheco.

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Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.

1984

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Black leaders of the nineteenth century / edited by Leon Litwack and August Meier.

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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1988.

1988

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Black population of North Hempstead, 1830-1880 [microform] / by Melody Victoria Isbell Boyd.

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1981.

1981

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The place of the Negro in American history / by Rev. R.W. Fickland and Rev. A.L. Murray.

Book/Text

Philadelphia, A.M.E. Publishing House, 1905

1905

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare 973.04-F (Fickland, R. Place of the Negro in American history)Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
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J.P. Ball, daguerrean and studio photographer / edited by Deborah Willis.

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New York : Garland Pub., 1993.

1993

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Free enterprise / Michelle Cliff.

Book/Text

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, c1993.

1993

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The strange sad war revolving : Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the emergence of Black citizenship, 1865-1876 / Luke Mancuso.

Book/Text

Columbia, SC, USA : Camden House, c1997.

1997

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Aristocrats of color : the Black elite, 1880-1920 / Willard B. Gatewood.

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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1993, c1990.

1993-1990

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Lift every voice : African American oratory, 1787-1900 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Robert James Branham.

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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1998.

1998

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Way down in Egypt land : conflict and community in Cairo, Illinois, 1850-1910 / by Christopher K. Hays.

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1996.

1996

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Race and U.S. foreign policy in the ages of territorial and market expansion, 1840 to 1900 / edited with introductions by Michael L. Krenn.

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New York : Garland Pub., 1998.

1998

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The crisis of emancipation in America : being a review of the history of emancipation, from the beginning of the American war to the assassination of President Lincoln / By F. Seebohm.

Book/Text

London : A.W. Bennett, 1865.

1865

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Return to union : Fairfax County's role in the adoption of the Virginia Constitution of 1870 / compiled by Brian A. Conley.

Book/Text

Fairfax, VA : Fairfax County Public Library, c2001.

2001

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The Life and works of Paul Laurence Dunbar / introduction by Robert Cummings.

Book/Text

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Candace Press, 1996.

1996

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The autobiography of an ex-colored man / James Weldon Johnson ; introduction by Robert Cummings.

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Grand Rapids, Mich. : Candace Press, 1996.

1996

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A negro explorer at the North Pole / by Matthew A. Henson ; introduction by Robert Cummings ; with original forward by Robert E. Peary and original introduction by Booker T. Washington.

Book/Text

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Candace Press, 1996.

1996

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The wife of his youth, and other stories of the color line / by Charles W. Chesnutt ; introduction by Robert Cummings.

Book/Text

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Candace Press, 1996.

1996

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Portraits of African American life since 1865 / edited by Nina Mjagkij.

Book/Text

Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2003.

2003

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Inventing the cotton gin : machine and myth in antebellum America / Angela Lakwete.

Book/Text

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

2003

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Colored young men and the student association.

Book/Text

[New York : s.n., 1913?]

1913

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Negro problem : there is no Negro problem.

Book/Text

[Baltimore : s.n., 1899]

1899

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Time's memory / Julius Lester.

Book/Text

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006.

2006

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Free! : great escapes from slavery on the Underground Railroad : based on true stories / by Lorene Cary.

Book/Text

Chicago, IL : New City Community Press, c2005.

2005

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Frederick Douglass : race and the rebirth of American liberalism / Peter C. Myers.

Book/Text

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2008.

2008

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Loopholes and retreats : African American writers and the nineteenth century / edited by John Cullen Gruesser and Hanna Wallinger.

Book/Text

Wien : Lit ; London : distributed in the UK by Global Book Marketing, 2009.

2009

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 09-886Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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With malice toward none : the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition, Library of Congress : [February 12 - May 9, 2009].

Book/Text

[Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009]

2009

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Women's work : an anthology of African-American women's historical writings from antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Kathryn Lofton.

Book/Text

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

2010

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The Bible view of slavery reconsidered : a letter to the Right Rev. Bishop Hopkins / [Biblicus].

Book/Text

Philadelphia : Henry B. Ashmead, Book and Job Printer, 1863.

1863

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Slavery irreconcilable with christianity and sound reason : or, an anti-slavery argument / by Isaac V. Brown.

Book/Text

Trenton : C. Scott and Co. ; N[ew] Brunswick : J. Terhune, 1858

1858

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The end to the slavery controversy / by J.R. Shanafelt.

Book/Text

Philadelphia : C. Sherman, Son & Co., printers, 1864.

1864

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare+ F 12-22Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Of times and race : essays inspired by John F. Marszalek / edited by Michael B. Ballard and Mark R. Cheathem ; [photo by Russ Houston].

Book/Text

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

2013

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 13-101Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African-Americans in law and politics / Mary Main and Cathy Thomason.

Book/Text

Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2013.

2013

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 13-295Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Message of the President of the United States : communicating a letter addressed to him from a committee of gentlemen representing the Freedman's Aid Societies of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati : in relation to the freedmen under the proclamation of emancipation.

Book/Text

[Washington : G.P.O., 1863]

1863

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare D 13-1Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Downing, Thomas, 1791-1866: clippings.

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I freed myself : African American self-emancipation in the Civil War era / David Williams, Valdosta State University, Georgia.

Book/Text

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

2014

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 14-1047Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The making of an abolitionist : William Lloyd Garrison's path to publishing The Liberator / Denis Brennan.

Book/Text

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

2014

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 14-303Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Rethinking American Emancipation : Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom / edited by William A. Link, University of Florida, James J. Broomall, Shepherd University.

Book/Text

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

2016

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Bonds of union : religion, race, and politics in a Civil War borderland / Bridget Ford.

Book/Text

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

2016

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Democracy and the American Civil War : race and African Americans in the nineteenth century / edited by Kevin Adams and Leonne M. Hudson.

Book/Text

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]

2016

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 17-24Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Through darkness to light : photographs along the underground railroad : a photographic essay / by Jeanine Michna-Bales ; foreword by Andrew J. Young ; essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.

Book/Text

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2017]

2017

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc+ D 17-369Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Up from slavery : an autobiography / by Booker T. Washington.

Book/Text

New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901.

1901

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The underground railroad and the geography of violence in antebellum America / Robert H. Churchill, University of Hartford.

Book/Text

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

2020

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 21-1460Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The works of William Wells Brown : using his "strong, manly voice" / edited by Paula Garrett and Hollis Robbins ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Book/Text

New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.

2006

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 07-683Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Up from slavery : an autobiography / by Booker T. Washington ; with illustrations of the author and his environment, together with an introd. by Langston Hughes.

Book/Text

New York : Dodd, Mead, [1965].

1965

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Free Black communities and the Underground Railroad : the geography of resistance / Cheryl Janifer LaRoche.

Book/Text

Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2014]

2014

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 14-595Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Racial reconstruction : Black inclusion, Chinese exclusion, and the fictions of citizenship / Edlie L. Wong.

Book/Text

New York : New York University Press, [2015]

2015

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 15-1830Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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