African American History

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Literature

(Amazingly, the entire work is online! – just click on the novel, autobiography, etc. of your choice)

"American Slave Narratives"

Phyllis Wheatley (includes rare portrait/writings)

"Narrative of Sojourner Truth"

"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Up from Slavery" by Booker T. Washington

12 Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup

“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” by F.Douglass

“My Bondage and My Freedom” by Frederick Douglass

"Clotel; or The President's Daughter" by William Wells Brown

“The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois

 

 

History-related Websites

Tour of Slave Quarters-

Virginia Runaway Slave Advertisements

 Former Slaves Living in Liberia (Letters)

African American Sources in Virgina(illustrations)

Abolition and Slavery

African Americans and the Military

A Chronology of African American Military Service

African American Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients 

African Americans Scientists & Inventors

Blacks in Technology

Harlem 1900-1940

Benjamin Banneker &  Washington, D.C.