Mott, A. _Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color; with a Selection of Pieces of Poetry_. (New York, 1826.) Some of these sketches show how ambitious Negroes succeeded in spite of opposition.
Simmons, W.J. _Men of Mark; Eminent, Progressive, and Rising, with an Introductory Sketch of the Author by Reverend Henry M. Turner_.
(Cleveland, Ohio, 1891.) Accounts for the adverse circ.u.mstances under which many antebellum Negroes made progress.
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
Coffin, Levi. _Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, reputed President of the Underground Railroad_. Second edition. (Cincinnati, 1880.) Contains many facts concerning Negroes.
Dougla.s.s, Frederick. _Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dougla.s.s, as an American Slave_. Written by himself. (Boston, 1845.) Gives several cases of secret Negro movements for their own good.
--_The Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s from 1817 to 1882_.
(London, 1882.) Written by himself. With an Introduction by the Eight Honorable John Bright, M.P. Edited by John Loeb, F.R.G.S., of the _Christian Age_. Editor of _Uncle Tom"s Story of his Life_.
HISTORIES
Bancroft, George. _History of the United States_. Ten volumes.
(Boston, 1857-1864.)
Brackett, Jeffrey R. _The Negro in Maryland_. Johns Hopkins University Studies. (Baltimore, 1889.)
Collins, Lewis. _Historical Sketches of Kentucky_. (Maysville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio, 1847.)
Dunn, J.P. _Indiana; A redemption from Slavery_. (In the American Commonwealths, vols. XII, Boston and New York, 1888.)
Evans, W.E. _A History of Scioto County together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio_. (Portsmouth, 1903.)
Farmer, Silas. _The History of Detroit and Michigan or the Metropolis Ill.u.s.trated_. A chronological encyclopedia of the past and the present including a full record of territorial days in Michigan and the annals of Wayne County. Two volumes. (Detroit, 1899.)
Harris, N.D. _The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in that State, 1719-1864,_. (Chicago, 1904.)
Hart, A.B. _The American Nation; A History, etc_. Twenty-seven volumes. (New York, 1904-1908.) The volumes which have a bearing on the subject treated in this monograph are W.A. Dunning"s _Reconstruction_, F.J. Turner"s _Rise of the New West_, and A.B. Hart"s _Slavery and Abolition_.
Hinsdale, B.A. _The Old Northwest; with a view of the thirteen colonies as const.i.tuted by the royal charters_. (New York, 1888.)
Howe, Henry. _Historical Collections of Ohio_. Contains a collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its general and local history with descriptions of its counties, princ.i.p.al towns and villages. (Cincinnati, 1847.)
Jones, Charles Colcook, Jr. _History of Georgia_. (Boston, 1883.)
McMaster, John B. _History of the United States_. Six volumes. (New York, 1900.)
Rhodes, J.F. _History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule in the South_. (New York and London, Macmillan & Company, 1892-1906.)
Steiner, B.C. _History of Slavery in Connecticut_. (Johns Hopkins University Studies, 1893.)
Stuve, Bernard, and Alexander Davidson. _A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1783_. (Springfield, 1874.)
Tremain, Mary M.A. _Slavery in the District of Columbia_. (University of Nebraska Seminary Papers, April, 1892.)
_History of Brown County, Ohio_. (Chicago, 1883.)
ADDRESSES
Garrison, William Lloyd. _An Address Delivered before the Free People of Color in Philadelphia, New York and other Cities during the Month of June, 1831_. (Boston, 1831.)
Griffin, Edward Dore. _A Plea for Africa,_. (New York, 1817.) A Sermon preached October 26, 1817, in the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York before the Synod of New York and New Jersey at the Request of the Board of Directors of the African School established by the Synod. The aim was to arouse interest in colonization.
REPORTS AND STATISTICS
_Special Report of the Commissioner of Education on the Improvement of Public Schools in the District of Columbia_, containing M. B. Goodwin"s "History of Schools for the Colored Population in the District of Columbia." (Washington, 1871.)
_Report of the Committee of Representatives of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends upon the condition and wants of the Colored Refugees_, 1862.
Clarke, J. F. _Present Condition of the Free Colored People of the United States_. (New York and Boston, the American Antislavery Society, 1859.) Published also in the March number of the _Christian Examiner_.
_Condition of the Free People of Color in Ohio. With interesting anecdotes_. (Boston, 1839.)
_Inst.i.tute for Colored Youth_. (Philadelphia, 1860-1865.) Contains a list of the officers and students.
Jones, Thomas Jesse. _Negro Education: A study of the private and higher schools for colored people in the United States. Prepared in cooperation with the Phelps-Stokes Fund_. In two volumes. (Bureau of Education, Washington, 1917.)
_Official Records of the War of Rebellion_.
_Report of the Condition of the Colored People of Cincinnati_, 1835.
(Cincinnati, 1835.)
_Report of a Committee of the Pennsylvania Society of Abolition on Present Condition of the Colored People, etc_., 1838. (Philadelphia, 1838.)
_Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the People of Color of the City and Districts of Philadelphia_. (Philadelphia, 1849.)
_Statistics of the Colored People of Philadelphia in 1859_, compiled by Benj. C. Bacon. (Philadelphia, 1859.)
_Statistical Abstract of the United States_, 1898. Prepared by the Bureau of Statistics. (Washington, D. C., 1899.)
_Statistical View of the Population of the United States, A_ 1790-1830. (Published by the Department of State in 1835.)
_Trades of the Colored People_. (Philadelphia, 1838.)