Woolman, John. Journal of John Woolman, with an Introduction by John G. Whittier. (Boston, 1873.) Woolman traveled so extensively in the colonies that he probably knew more about the Negroes than any other Quaker of his time.

LETTERS

Boyce, Stanbury. Letters on the Emigration of the Negroes to Trinidad.

Jefferson, Thomas. Letters of Thomas Jefferson to Abbe Gregoire, M.A.  Julien, and Benjamin Banneker.  In Jefferson’s Works, Memorial Edition, xii and xv.  He comments on Negroes’ talents.

Madison, James. Letters to Frances Wright.  In Madison’s
Works, vol. iii, p. 396.  The emancipation of Negroes is discussed.

May, Samuel Joseph. The Right of the Colored People to Education. 
(Brooklyn, 1883.) A collection of public letters addressed to Andrew T.
Judson, remonstrating on the unjust procedure relative to Miss Prudence
Crandall.

McDonogh, John. “A Letter of John McDonogh on African Colonization addressed to the Editor of the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin.”  McDonogh was interested in the betterment of the colored people and did much to promote their mental development.

BIOGRAPHIES

Birney, William. James G. Birney and His Times. (New York, 1890.) A sketch of an advocate of Negro uplift.

Bowen, Clarence W. Arthur and Lewis Tappan.  A paper read at the fiftieth anniversary of the New York Anti-Slavery Society, at the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, October 2, 1883.  An honorable mention of two friends of the Negro.

Drew, Benjamin. A North-side View of Slavery.  The Refugee:  or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada.  Related by themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada. (New York and Boston, 1856.)

Frothingham, O.B. Gerritt Smith:  A Biography. (New York, 1878.)

Garrison, Francis and Wendell P. William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879.  The Story of his Life told by his Children.  Four volumes. (Boston and New York, 1894.) Includes a brief account of what he did for the colored people.

Hammond, C.A. Gerritt Smith, The Story of a Noble Man’s Life.  (Geneva, 1900.)

Johnson, Oliver. William Lloyd Garrison and his Times. (Boston, 1880.  New edition, revised and enlarged, Boston, 1881.)

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 circumstances under which many antebellum Negroes made progress.