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AFRICAN
AMERICAN HERITAGE LIBRARY
Collection on Self Starting CD
The African American Heritage Library Collection on CD is priced
at $10 postpaid.
All of the following titles are included on one self starting CD
| Title/Author | Description |
| The Light and Truth of Slavery by Aaron |
"Reader, here is the picture of the poor, way-faring, degraded Aaron. Now reader, Aaron wants you to buy this book. I don't want you to buy it merely to read it through, I want you to buy it and I want you to read it, not for to lay it up in your head, but to lay it up in your heart, and then you will remember the poor way-faring Bondman." |
| The Future of the Colored Race in America by William Aikman |
Views of slavery and the Civil War by the Pastor of the Hanover Street Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware. |
| Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth by Charles Alexander |
"In this book is written the marvelous and inspiring life-story of a man of the Negro race who rose up from the most abject condition of birth and environment to dignity and honor, power and authority, before the snows of the winter age had whitened his head." |
| Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson by William J. Anderson |
Twenty-four years a slave, sold eight times! In jail sixty times!! Whipped three hundred times!!! or The Dark Deeds of American Slavery revealed containing scriptural views of the origin of the Black and of the White man. Also, a simple and easy plan to abolish slavery in the United States. Together with an account of the services of Colored Men in the Revolutionary War -- Day and date, and interesting facts. |
| Frederick Douglass by Charles Waddell Chesnutt |
"Frederick Douglass lived so long, and played so conspicuous a part on the world's stage, that it would be impossible, in a work of the size of this, to do more than touch upon the salient features of his career, to suggest the respects in which he influenced the course of events in his lifetime, and to epitomize for the readers of another generation the judgment of his contemporaries as to his genius and his character." |
| The House Behind the Cedars by Charles Waddell Chesnutt |
"Time touches all things with destroying hand; and if he seem now and then to bestow the bloom of youth, the sap of spring, it is but a brief mockery, to be surely and swiftly followed by the wrinkles of old age, the dry leaves and bare branches of winter. And yet there are places where Time seems to linger lovingly long after youth has departed, and to which he seems loath to bring the evil day. Who has not known some even-tempered old man or woman who seemed to have drunk of the fountain of youth? Who has not seen somewhere an old town that, having long since ceased to grow, yet held its own without perceptible decline?" |
| Unwritten History by Levi Jenkins Coppin |
"Intermingled with this "Unwritten History" is the story of my life. Being all from memory, except here and there the verification of a date, there may be some repetitions. Of course much of the "Story" is omitted, but, things that impressed me most, and facts that seem to me most important among the "Unwritten" things, are noted. Those who are fond of reading novels about men who never lived, and things that never did and never will happen, may enjoy a change to something that is historical and real. If the example of some of the worthy ones mentioned inspires someone else, the object of the author is accomplished." |
| Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft |
The escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery. Having heard while in Slavery that "God made of one blood all nations of men," and also that the American Declaration of Independence says, that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;" we could not understand by what right we were held as "chattels." Therefore, we felt perfectly justified in undertaking the dangerous and exciting task of "running a thousand miles" in order to obtain those rights which are so vividly set forth in the Declaration. |
| My Escape from Slavery by Frederick Douglass |
Frederick Douglass was a very popular and influential speaker. He provided impetus to the abolitionist movement. Born a slave, in 1838 Douglas escaped to Massachusetts where he was influenced by William Lloyd Garrison to become active in the anti-slavery cause. |
| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave by Frederick Douglass |
"This Narrative contains many affecting incidents, many passages of great eloquence and power; but I think the most thrilling one of them all is the description DOUGLASS gives of his feelings, as he stood soliloquizing respecting his fate, and the chances of his one day being a freeman, on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay--viewing the receding vessels as they flew with their white wings before the breeze, and apostrophizing them as animated by the living spirit of freedom." -- Wm. Lloyd Garrison |
| Reconstruction by Frederick Douglass |
"Whether the tremendous war so heroically fought and so victoriously ended shall pass into history a miserable failure, barren of permanent results, ... or whether, on the other hand, we shall, as the rightful reward of victory over treason, have a solid nation, entirely delivered from all contradictions and social antagonisms, based upon loyalty, liberty, and equality, ..." |
| The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois |
"Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line. I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there." |
| The Story of Archer Alexander by William Greenleaf Eliot |
"The following narrative was prepared without intention of publication; but I have been led to think that it may be of use, not only as a reminiscence of the "war of secession," but as a fair presentation of slavery in the Border States for the twenty or thirty years preceding the outbreak of hostilities. I am confirmed in this view by the fact, that, on submitting the manuscript to a leading publishing-house in a Northern city, it was objected to, among other reasons, as too tame to satisfy the public taste and judgment. But, from equally intelligent parties in a city farther south, the exactly opposite criticism was made, as if a too harsh judgment of slavery and slave-holders was conveyed, so that its publication would be prejudicial to those undertaking it." |
| Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris |
Uncle Remus is a fictional character used by Harris, a white man, to narrate this collection of stories. But the stories themselves are authentic African folk tales, with common American animals replacing the original African beasts. The language preserved by Harris is difficult to read today, but is valuable to those studying the evolution of the American Negro dialect. |
| With Lee in Virginia by G. A. Henty |
A Victorian novel about the Civil War: runaway slaves, plantation life, codes of honor, kind and cruel slave owners, and the war itself. Designed to appeal chiefly to teen-agers. |
| Frederick Douglass the Colored Orator by Frederic May Holland |
"The invitation to write this life was readily accepted, partly because I hoped it would in some degree reduce the color-prejudice, with other prejudices also, and partly because I have always felt an admiration for Mr. Douglass, which has increased as I have come to know him thoroughly. His consent was cordially given in a letter, where he says: 'If you can say anything of me that the public does not already know, by all means tell it. I am sure you cannot say anything of me which will not be pretty strongly colored, but go ahead.'" |
| Pictures of Slavery in Church and State by John Dixon Long |
"I am from the masses, and have lived and labored with them. I love and sympathize with the oppressed of all classes and colors. Yet I honor the rich, the wise, the learned, and those high in authority. My design is not to array the poor against the rich, or the colored against the white; but to array all classes against slavery as it exists in the Southern States of this Union." |
| The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy |
The historical roots and the development of the movement that precipitated the Civil War. |
| The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution by William C. Nell |
"The colored race have been generally considered by their enemies, and sometimes even by their friends, as deficient in energy and courage. Their virtues have been supposed to be principally negative ones. This little collection of interesting incidents, made by a colored man, will redeem the character of the race from this misconception, and show how much injustice there may often be in a generally admitted idea." |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
"So you're the little lady who started the war," Lincoln said when he met the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Indeed, the influence of fictional characters created by a woman who had no first-hand experience with slavery, or even the South, is amazing. |
| The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth |
"The subject of this biography, SOJOURNER TRUTH, as she now calls herself-but whose name, originally, was Isabella-was born, as near as she can now calculate, between the years 1797 and 1800. She was the daughter of James and Betsey, slaves of one Colonel Ardinburgh, Hurley, Ulster County, New York." |
| Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington |
"This volume is the outgrowth of a series of articles, dealing with incidents in my life, which were published consecutively in the Outlook. While they were appearing in that magazine I was constantly surprised at the number of requests which came to me from all parts of the country, asking that the articles be permanently preserved in book form." |
| Thoughts upon Slavery in "A Collection of Religious Tracts" by John Wesley |
"By slavery I mean domestic slavery, or that of a servant to a master. A late ingenious writer well observes, "The variety of forms in which slavery appears, makes it almost impossible to convey a just notion of it, by way of definition." |
| Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson |
Sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North, showing that slavery's shadows fall even there. |
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