A SELECT LIST OF NEGRO-AMERICANA AND AFRICANA
NOTABLE EARLY BOOKS BY NEGROES
Compiled by Arthur A. Schomburg
- A(bsolom) J(ones) and R(ichard) A(llen):
- A narrative of the proceedings of the Black people during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia and a Refutation of some censures. Philadelphia, 1794.
- Allen, Richard, First Bishop of the A. M. E. Church:
- The life, experience and gospel labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. Written by himself. Philadelphia, 1793.
- Allen, Richard and Jacob Tapisco:
- The Doctrine and Discipline of the A. M. E. Church. Philadelphia, 1819.
- Allen, William G.:
- Wheatley, Banneker and Horton. Essay, with poems of Horton. Boston, 1849.
- The American Prejudice Against Color. London, 1853. 12mo., 107 pp.
- Anglo-African Magazine:
- William Hamilton, editor. New York, 1859–60.
- Anonymous:
- An Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens Threatened with Disfranchisement to the People of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, 1838.
- Slavery—By a Free Negro. 1789.
- Banneker, Benjamin:
- Almanacs—Goddard & Angell, Baltimore, 1792; Joseph Cruikshank, Philadelphia, 1793, 1794, and 1795; James Angell, Baltimore, 1796; Samuel Pleasants, Junr., Richmond, 1797.
- Bell, J. Madison:
- A Poem Entitled The Day and the War, delivered January 1st, 1864. San Francisco, 1864.
- An Anniversary Poem Entitled The Progress of Liberty, delivered January 1st, 1866. San Francisco, 1866.
- A Poem Entitled The Triumph of Liberty. Detroit, 1870.
- Poems. New York, 1864.
- Bibb, Henry:
- Narrative of the Life and Character of H. B., an American Slave, written by himself. New York, 1849.
- Blackson, Lorenzo D.:
- The Rise and Progress of the Kingdom of Light and Darkness, etc. Philadelphia, 1867.
- Blyden, Edward Wilmot:
- Vindication of the African Race. G. Killiam, Monrovia, 1857.
- Liberia's Offering. J. A. Gray, New York, 1862.
- The Negro in Ancient History. New York, 1872.
- Aims of a Liberal Education for Africa. Cambridge, 1882.
- Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race. London, 1887.
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