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(Philadelphia, 1806.)
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_Rhode Island, Acts and Resolves of_.
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(Philadelphia, 1792, and London, 1793.)
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_The Jesuit Relations and Allied Doc.u.ments, Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1619-1791. The Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts with English Translations and Notes ill.u.s.trated by Portraits, Maps, and Facsimiles_. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. (Cleveland, 1896.)
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------_The Free Church Alliance with Manstealers. Send back the Money.
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(Philadelphia, 1817.)
------_American Internal Slave Trade; with Reflections on the project for forming a Colony of Blacks in Africa_. (London, 1822.)
Turner, E.R. _The Negro in Pennsylvania_. (Washington, 1911.)
_Tyrannical Libertymen: a Discourse upon Negro Slavery in the United States, composed at ------ in New Hampshire: on the Late Federal Thanksgiving Day_. (Hanover, N. H., 1795.)
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Ward, Charles. _Contrabands_. (Salem, 1866.) This suggests an apprenticeship, under the auspices of the government, to build the Pacific Railroad.
Washington, B.T. _The Story of the Negro_. Two volumes. (New York, 1909.)
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Weeks, Stephen B. _Southern Quakers and Slavery. A Study in Inst.i.tutional History_. (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1896.)
------_The Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the South; with Unpublished Letters from John Stuart Mill and Mrs. Stowe_. (Southern History a.s.sociation Publications, Volume ii, No. 2, Washington, D.C., April, 1898.)
Williams, G.W. _A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, preceded by a Review of the military Services of Negroes in ancient and modern Times_. (New York, 1888.)
------_History of the Negro Race in the United States from 1619-1880.
Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens: together with a preliminary Consideration of the Unity of the Human Family, an historical Sketch of Africa and an Account of the Negro Governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia_. (New York, 1883.)
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Woolman, John. _The Works of John Woolman. In two Parts, Part I: A Journal of the Life, Gospel-Labors, and Christian Experiences of that faithful Minister of Christ, John Woolman, late of Mount Holly in the Province of New Jersey_. (London, 1775.)
------_Same, Part Second. Containing his last Epistle and other Writings_. (London, 1775.)
------_Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes. Recommended to the Professors of Christianity of every Denomination_. (Philadelphia, 1754.)
------_Considerations on Keeping Negroes; Recommended to the Professors of Christianity of every Denomination. Part the Second_. (Philadelphia, 1762.)
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MAGAZINES
_The African Methodist Episcopal Church Review_. The following articles:
_The Negro as an Inventor_. By R. R. Wright, vol. ii, p. 397.
_Negro Poets_, vol. iv, p. 236.
_The Negro in Journalism_, vols. vi, p. 309, and xx, p. 137.
_The African Repository_; Published by the American Colonization Society from 1826 to 1832. A very good source for Negro history both in this country and Liberia. Some of its most valuable articles are:
_Learn Trades or Starve_, by Frederick Dougla.s.s, vol. xxix, p. 137. Taken from Frederick Dougla.s.s"s Paper.
_Education of the Colored People_, by a highly respectable gentleman of the South, vol. x.x.x, pp. 194, 195 and 196.