Stevens, Charles E.:  Anthony Burns, a History.  Boston, 1856.

Catto, William T.:  A Semi-Centenary Discourse, delivered in the First African Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, with a History of the church from its first organization, including a brief notice of Rev. John Gloucester, its first pastor.  Philadelphia, 1857.

Bacon, Benjamin C.:  Statistics of the Colored People of Philadelphia.  Philadelphia, 1856.  Second edition, with statistics of crime, Philadelphia, 1857.

Condition of the Free Colored People of the United States, by James Freeman Clarke, in Christian Examiner, March, 1859, 246-265.  Reprinted as pamphlet by American Anti-Slavery Society, New York, 1859.

Brown, William Wells:  Clotel, or The President’s Daughter (a narrative of slave life in the United States).  London, 1853.

  The Escape; or A Leap for Freedom, a Drama in five acts.  Boston,
  1858.

  The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements. 
  New York, 1863.

  The Rising Son; or The Antecedents and Advancement of the
  Colored Race.  Boston, 1874.

To Thomas J. Gantt, Esq. (Broadside), Charleston, 1861.

Douglass, William:  Annals of St. Thomas’s First African Church. 
Philadelphia, 1862.

Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored Men, held in the city of Syracuse, N.Y., October 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1864, with the Bill of Wrongs and Rights and the Address to the American People.  Boston, 1864.

The Budget, containing the Annual Reports of the General Officers of the African M.E.  Church of the United States of America, edited by Benjamin W. Arnett.  Xenia, O., 1881.  Same for later years.

Simms, James M.:  The First Colored Baptist Church in North America.  Printed by J.B.  Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1888.

Upton, William H.:  Negro Masonry, being a Critical Examination of objections to the legitimacy of the Masonry existing among the Negroes of America.  Cambridge, 1899; second edition, 1902.

Brooks, Charles H.:  The Official History and Manual of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America.  Philadelphia, 1902.

Cromwell, John W.:  The Early Convention Movement.  Occasional Paper No. 9 of American Negro Academy, Washington, D.C., 1904.

Brooks, Walter H.:  The Silver Bluff Church, Washington, 1910.

Crawford, George W.:  Prince Hall and His Followers.  New Haven, 1915.

Wright, Richard R., Jr. (Editor-in-Chief):  Centennial Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.  A.M.E.  Book Concern, Philadelphia, 1916.

Also note narratives or autobiographies of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Samuel Ringgold Ward, Solomon Northrup, Lunsford Lane, etc.; the poems of Phillis Wheatley (first edition, London, 1773), and George M. Horton; Williams’s History for study of some more prominent characters; Woodson’s bibliography for the special subject of education; and periodical literature, especially the articles remarked in Chapter XI in connection with the free people of color in Louisiana.