Researchers often find important information in the letters and papers of abolitionists. Black Boston activist William Cooper Nell's papers are particularly helpful, as are the Black Abolitionist Papers and the Letters of William Lloyd Garrison.
The Black Abolitionist Papers by C. Peter Ripley and Jeffrey S. Rossbach, eds.
E449 .B624 1985 (5 volumes)
Miscellaneous American Letters and Papers selected from collection at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, relating to slavery, abolition, freedmen and free black settlements.
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
E449 .G245 (6 volumes)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott
HQ1413.M68 S45 2002
William Cooper Nell: Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist; Selected Writings 1832-1874
E449 .N45 2002
Resources on Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
The online collection, containing approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images), spans the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material dating from 1862 to 1865.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
My Bondage and My Freedom
E449 .D738 (copies in Stauffer, Law Library and Special Collections)
Life and times of Frederick Douglass
E449 .D7382
All Bound Up Together : the Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
E185.86 .J663 2007
Black Women Abolitionists : a Study in Activism, 1828-1860
E449 .Y44 1992
Black Women in America : an Historical Encyclopedia
E185.86 .B542 1993 (Stauffer Reference)
Black Women in Nineteeth-Century American Life: their Words, their Thoughts, their Feelings
E185.96 .B54
Maria W. Stewart, America's first Black woman Political Writer : Essays and Speeches
Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities by Monroe Alphus Majors
We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
E185.86 .W43 1997
The Work of the Afro-American Woman by Mrs. N. F. Mossell
(orig. pub. 1894)
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Profile in Black History Canada.
A Survey of the Negro Convention Movement -1830-1861 by Howard Bell.
Access via the database, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.
Minutes of the proceedings of the National Negro Conventions, 1830-1864.
E185.5 .B44 1969
To Live an Antislavery Life : Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class
E185.18 .B35 2012
Forgotten Readers : Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Unwelcome Guests : Canada West's Response to American Fugitive Slaves, 1800-1865
FC3100 .B56 S54 1985
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